Logistics Firm Not Liable for Truck Accident

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A third-party logistics company arranging for a shipment of goods from Missouri to New Jersey did not exert the type of control over a trucker that would render it liable for a catastrophic accident that occurred in Maryland, a federal judge in Baltimore has held.

U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz granted defendant C. H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. summary judgment on various state and federal claims against it in connection with a 2002 accident in Allegany County in which a tractor-trailer collided with a passenger car.

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Logistics Firm Not Liable for Truck Accident

The judge denied Robinson's motion for summary judgment, however, on a claim that it was negligent in selecting the Pennsylvania- based Groff Brothers Trucking LLC to transport a shi...

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