For decades I’ve seen billboards advertising lawyers who will help people in accidents where 18 wheelers were at fault (e.g. deep pockets). Haven’t they always been vulnerable to lawsuits?
Is this adding additional criminal liability to civil liability or am I misunderstanding?
Brokers are like sports agents who connect two parties and collect a percentage of the money that changes hands. Instead of players and teams, they connect truckers with shippers. The presumption has been that they were not liable for any damage caused by the trucks, since they were not actually operating them on the road. The Supreme Court has ruled that, as a party to the transaction, they share responsibility for the results.