In Parents v. California Trucking Group (Central Cal. Sup. Ct.) Doris Cheng and Clifton Smoot obtained a policy-limits $3,000,000 settlement, as well as changes to the defendant trucking company’s safety policies. Plaintiffs were the parents of an unmarried adult child. The decedent was studying medicine at the time of the crash and planning a career helping underserved patients in a community clinic setting. The defendant’s truck driver made an illegal U-turn entering the path of the decedent who was driving a motorcycle. As a result of the litigation and the settlement negotiations, the defendant trucking group agreed to make a series of safety changes to its operations including driver training, a ban on U-turns, and the expanded use of dashboard cameras in all tractors.
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