Jury Awards Damages To Truck Accident Victim
December 8th, 2007A Tennessee jury awarded $6.65 million in damages recently to the mother of a 17-year-old girl who died in a tractor-trailer accident. Lindsey Garretson was killed August 8, 2000 when a truck driven by Stuart Foy slammed into the back of her car on Interstate 40. Foy failed to slow the tractor-trailer, owned by KLLM Transport Services Inc., when vehicles began braking to avoid a mattress that had fallen off another truck. Plaintiff attorneys argued that Foy should never have been employed by KLLM due to his record of reckless driving and several accidents.