Update: Trucking company facing $900M-plus verdict didn’t take part in . . . Key Takeaways: (Further coverage of the truck wrecks that led to the billion-dollar verdict can be found here ) A new record for nuclear verdicts against a trucking company may have been set with a $1 billion verdict handed down Tuesday by a Florida jury
Inside a nuclear verdict: Florida jury renders $1 billion ruling A Florida jury ruled on Aug 27 that two trucking companies were complicit in the 2017 death of an 18-year-old honor student, awarding the family of the late Connor Dzion a total of $1 billion in damages
$1B Verdict Against Shipping Carriers in Fatal Collision On August 20, 2021, a jury in Nassau County, Florida issued a $1 billion verdict against two motor carriers who were declared negligent for their role in two 2017 collisions that occurred on the same evening and near the same location