SANTA FE,
N.M., Feb. 15, 2018
/PRNewswire/ -- (Academy Of Truck Accident Attorneys)
-- The New Mexico Court of
Appeal has upheld a record $178
Million verdict against Fedex (NYSE:FDX) following a 2011
crash that killed a 22 year old mother and wife and her four year
old daughter. The case was in the New
Mexico Court of Appeals, Case No. A-1-CA-35001. The wreck
critically injured the woman's 19 month old baby boy.
Attorneys Jim Scherr and
Sam Legate of Scherr Legate in El
Paso, Texas, represent the surviving boy and his
father.
"To date," said Scherr, "almost seven years later, Fedex
has not paid a thing nor apologized to the father and son whose
lives and family it changed forever."
The fatal crash occurred in June of 2011 on Interstate 10
west of Las Cruces after midnight.
A Fedex 22-wheel piggy-back tractor trailer was cruising at 62
miles per hour and took no evasive action to avoid the victims'
disabled small pickup truck with flashing hazard and brake lights
illuminated. The Fedex driver ignored another truck which had
parked in the median -- with flashing lights -- to warn oncoming
traffic.
The trial exposed Fedex's unsafe trucking business model
and the open secret that Fedex, which promotes a fleet of more than
30,000 trucks and 50,000 drivers, claims to have no employees --
only "owner operators." Attorneys Scherr and Legate proved
that as a licensed US DOT Motor Carrier, Fedex IS responsible for
its workers, yet has no safety training program for the drivers and
that the company does nothing to determine if the drivers are fit
to drive the dangerous, overnight shift.
"Fedex's complete disregard for safety of the motoring
public explains why the jury assigned it 65 percent of the fault
for this collision," said Sam
Legate.
The successful outcome is representative of the quality of
representation by the attorney members of the Academy of Truck
Accident Attorneys, co-founded by attorneys Joe Fried and Michael
Leizerman.
"We founded ATAA so that lawyers who care about trucking
safety could share information and collaborate on cases to expose
dangerous conduct and gamesmanship," said Fried. "ATAA has the top
truck crash lawyers in the country, committed to helping each other
achieve the best results possible in serious truck crash cases,"
added Leizerman.
About Scherr
Legate:
Scherr
Legate is a leading Plaintiff's firm in El Paso, Texas. Media Contact:
915-206-2828
About the Academy of Truck Accident
Attorneys:
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association focused on the primary objectives of Education,
Advocacy and Recognition for the nation's leading Truck Accident
Attorneys. Media: 800-997-ATAA,
www.academyoftruckaccidentattorneys.org.
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