Personal Injury Law

Trucking Firm Ordered to Pay Damages to Girl

By Edward Bills

A Sacramento jury awarded an Oregon girl $24.3 million who was run over by an 18-wheeler six years ago driven by her father. The judge in the case ruled that the fact that her father was driving the truck was irrelevant, because he had been hired by the trucking company, Freeway Transport Inc., who the jury found liable. Diana Yuleidy Loza-Jimenez got accidentally caught under the back wheels of the truck, suffering severe injuries to her entire lower body. She will need an untold amount of surgeries that will affect her the rest of her life, an attorney said.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).