Truck Broker Liability

Invalidating the Defense's Use of Biased Industry Studies - Or "Is this Deliverance and do I hear banjos?" In Series 9 of Busting' Brokers, we looked at Establishing a Solid Defense. Now we're going to dig a little deeper into these specific reports that trucking companies may try to use to deny liability in your [...]

The Tangled Web Of Broker Defense—An Abundance Of Material For Impeachment In our last article, we looked at the overview of Countering the Broker's Defense and corresponding reports and articles to supplement our argument. Now we're going to go in depth on how to use the industry's own words and supporting studies against them to benefit our clients injured in [...]

Countering The Truck Broker's Defense In An Accident Case In Part 8 of our Busting Broker's  series, we "drilled down" on Disclaimers Being the Core of the Defense of a 3rd Party Truck Broker in an accident and injury case. Now in Part 9, we are going to look at countering the broker's defenses by [...]

Part 7 of Keith Williams' Busting Truck Brokers Series - Anticipating Their Defenses So you've formulated your "Rules of the Road" that will help put you in the drivers seat as far as establishing the foundation of your client's case and forcing the other party to agree to very important basic truths and facts inherent [...]

The Dangers of "Pre-Emption" In Your Aviation Lawsuit, Part 2 Continued from Blazing The Trail On Pre-Emption In Aviation Cases For Keith Williams Law Group Clients! Given this, the preemption language of the FAAAA does not manifest a clear and manifest purpose to preempt state law for personal injury. As the District Court for Puerto [...]

The Rules of the Road are more like "Guidelines" Unless You Establish Them Early in Your Freight Broker Trucking Accident Case So now you've determined what your broker did or didn't do when qualifying the carrier involved in your crash - what now?  If you're not careful, the defense is going to turn the Rules [...]

Pimp Daddy Carriers Wants to Carry Your Freight, Is That Cool With You, Shipper John? This is Part 4 of our Series on Busting Brokers involved in transportation accidents that result in injuries.  Parts 1 - 3 are available in our library. Now that you know a little about the industry, have checked the carrier’s [...]

Part 3 of Busting Trucking Brokers - Understand the BASICs of Safety Scores In our last article, we looked at the second step in "Busting Brokers", figuring out who the players involved are despite their best efforts to hide in the "Shipping Shell Game".  Now we are gong to learn our BASICs, which as we learned [...]

The Shipping Shell Game in Freight Broker Transportation Liability In our last article, Nashville attorney Keith Williams talked about Busting Brokers and making sure they were help accountable for poor hiring practices in the event of a Tennessee truck accident. We also learned a little truck transportation lingo.  In part 2 of our series, we're going to [...]

Keith's first article in a series about busting brokers - holding those responsible for negligent hiring practice that result in trucking accidents, injuries and deaths. We are going to do a series of articles on Broker Busting over the next few months.  These articles will be based on the best practices Keith Williams has learned [...]