Largest Truck Accident Verdict in Texas in 2024: $37.5 Million

A Dallas County jury came back with $37,500,000 in 2024. The man who was killed drove an 18-wheeler. He was parked on the shoulder because the truck had a mechanical problem. Topverdict.com recorded the result as the largest truck accident verdict in Texas that year.

An Oncor Electric lineman was on his way to another job site. He hit the parked truck at over 50 mph. He was on his cell phone.

Oncor blamed our client from the start of trial to the end of it. Their story was that the trailer sat partly in the outside lane, so the crash was on him. The traffic cameras did not go along with that. More than 40 vehicles passed the truck and got by it. The Oncor driver was the one who didn’t. He had not been looking at the road for at least eight seconds before impact.

Forty drivers saw a stopped truck and made room. He didn’t have his eyes up.

Ryan Zehl tried the same crash for two weeks. The offer before trial, and the fees it took to get there, are in the trial write-up of the $37.5 million Oncor verdict.

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