Freight Broker Negligent Hiring After Lipe: $604M Verdict and the Montgomery Effect
A Dallas jury returned a $604 million verdict in Lipe v. Lupus Superior LLC on July 24, 2026, assigning 23 percent fault to freight broker…
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Auto Accidents
Liability, UM/UIM, MIST defense trends
Diminished Value and Total Loss Disputes: Recovering Every Dollar of Auto Property Damage
Most PI clients focus on their bodily injury claim and accept whatever the insurer says about the car. Diminished value and total loss ACV…
Teen Driver Crashes: Graduated Licensing Violations, Parental Liability, and the Evidence You Need
When a teen driver violates a graduated license restriction, that statutory violation becomes the negligence-per-se anchor. Here is how to…
Construction Zone Crash Litigation: Mapping Every Liable Defendant
Work-zone crashes expose a defendant field that most auto practitioners never fully explore. Here is how to identify every liable party, pr…
Signal Timing Evidence and Intersection Liability in Auto Cases
When an intersection crash turns on who had the light, signal timing data can either confirm or dramatically reframe the liability picture.…
The Graves Amendment and the Rental Car Liability Gap
The Graves Amendment preempts state vicarious liability laws that would hold rental companies liable solely as vehicle owners. This piece e…
Getting Dashcam Footage Into Evidence in Auto Cases
Dashboard camera footage can be the most powerful evidence in an auto case, but only if you lay the right foundation at trial. Practitioner…
NHTSA August Recalls and FMCSA SMS Rebuild: PI Exposure Map for Auto Counsel
The August 3, 2026 NHTSA recall batch covers 599,000-plus vehicles, led by a Ford Explorer seat-entrapment campaign with 133 field reports…
Proving a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury When the Scans Read Normal
The defense will call it soft, subjective, and disproven by a clean head CT. Here is how to build a mild traumatic brain injury case that s…
Beating the Named Driver Exclusion in Auto Claims
Carriers deny liability coverage by pointing to an excluded household driver or a non-permissive user. Here is how to test the exclusion's…
Beating the "It Was Already There" Defense in Auto Cases
The defense will call your client's spine chronic and degenerative and argue the crash changed nothing. Here is how to prove aggravation of…
Beating the Empty-Chair Defense in Auto Cases
The empty-chair defense assigns fault to an absent nonparty and shrinks recovery. It fails against counsel who treat it as an affirmative f…