Texas Supreme Court to Hear Werner Enterprises $100M Nuclear Verdict Appeal


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The highly anticipated appeal of a nuclear verdict against Werner Enterprises, one of the largest trucking companies in the U.S., now goes to the Texas Supreme Court. This nuclear verdict, stemming from a tragic 2014 accident, raises concerns about liability in the trucking industry and could reshape how responsibility gets assigned in accidents involving commercial ... Read more

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Electric Chicken said:
To be fair, I think this entire original judgement is BS and should not have been allowed to be entered into the record. It makes absolutely no sense.

I don't even like Werner and I applaud their continued fight.
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I remember when it was a huge story, and all the debate that went on around it. 10 years ago, and this thing is still alive and now reaching the Texas Supreme Court.

And yes, this was total BS.

If we choose to drive, and end up causing an accident in bad weather, that's on us. That's not what happened here, though.
 
Mike said:
I remember when it was a huge story, and all the debate that went on around it. 10 years ago, and this thing is still alive and now reaching the Texas Supreme Court.

And yes, this was total BS.

If we choose to drive, and end up causing an accident in bad weather, that's on us. That's not what happened here, though.
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I agree. These morons lost control and crossed the median and got themselves unalived as I recall. It's 100% on them.

Werner was just dilly bopping along in their lane.
 
Too bad juries can't be punished for such stupidity. They should have to cough up the hundred million dollars themselves.

And the lawyer(s) who brought the case..

He should be charged criminally as if he stole $100M from Werner. And if the verdict is overturned on appeal, his criminal charge can be lowered to "attempted" theft of $100M.

The civil court system in this country needs to be overhauled. Right now it's simply legalized theft. Werner was in no way, shape or form responsible for that crash. In fact, they have legal grounds to sue the estate or insurance company of the actual responsible party for the damage to their truck.
 
Duck said:
Too bad juries can't be punished for such stupidity. They should have to cough up the hundred million dollars themselves.

And the lawyer(s) who brought the case..

He should be charged criminally as if he stole $100M from Werner. And if the verdict is overturned on appeal, his criminal charge can be lowered to "attempted" theft of $100M.

The civil court system in this country needs to be overhauled. Right now it's simply legalized theft. Werner was in no way, shape or form responsible for that crash. In fact, they have legal grounds to sue the estate or insurance company of the actual responsible party for the damage to their truck.
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There's a similar case in ND that's more recent. But same basic argument, even though the trucker did nothing wrong, he should have known better than to be there.

But with the trial lawyers being one of the largest lobbyists groups, tort reform is DOA for the foreseeable future.
 
gearjammer said:
June 27th 1977 is when things went downhill, that is the date when lawyers were allowed to advertise and it didn't take long for all the ambulance chasers to come out of the woodwork and our courts system went down a steep hill!!
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That explains why my parents are so disappointed in me. I was born exactly 4 years later, so they thought I was meant to save the world from such tyranny.
 
gearjammer said:
June 27th 1977 is when things went downhill, that is the date when lawyers were allowed to advertise and it didn't take long for all the ambulance chasers to come out of the woodwork and our courts system went down a steep hill!!
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How were they not allowed to advertise prior to that?

I mean it'd be nice if they weren't, the country would be a better place if they couldn't. But there's that first amendment thing.. 🤔

Congress made it illegal for Big Tobacco to advertise & that's somehow "constitutional"... So maybe there's a way that someday when human beings outnumber the corrupt criminals in the house, senate and white house, we can ban ambulance chasers from advertising.

Many years ago I heard that billboards are banned in Maine, but the only time I was ever in Maine, I forgot to look for billboards. So I don't know if that's true or not.
 
Mike said:
I remember when it was a huge story, and all the debate that went on around it. 10 years ago, and this thing is still alive and now reaching the Texas Supreme Court.

And yes, this was total BS.

If we choose to drive, and end up causing an accident in bad weather, that's on us. That's not what happened here, though.
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Wasn't the driver that lost control also intoxicated?

I think I heard that somewhere. I just don't understand how if someone ends up going the opposite direction of the lane of travel and take away the right of way for traffic traveling properly how the traffic going the correct direction is at fault.
 

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