Post by Logan on Jan 27, 2016 21:03:41 GMT -6
RENO — A federal judge has refused to grant a new trial for a Nevada trucking company ordered to pay more than $4.5 million in damages to Amtrak after a truck slammed into a passenger train at a rural highway crossing in 2011, killing six people.
A U.S. District Court jury in Reno returned the verdict in September 2014 against the Battle Mountain-based John Davis Trucking.
The jurors concluded the truck driver who was killed along with five people on the California Zephyr was primarily to blame for the fiery crash in northern Nevada’s high desert about 60 miles northeast of Reno.
Lawyers for the trucking company argued in a motion for a rehearing that Judge Howard McKibben should have instructed the jury to consider evidence suggesting a faulty signal and crossing gate could have contributed to the collision on U.S. Highway 95 just south of U.S. Interstate 80.
Read more: www.nevadaappeal.com/news/20359343-113/45m-award-to-amtrak-upheld-in-deadly-nevada
A U.S. District Court jury in Reno returned the verdict in September 2014 against the Battle Mountain-based John Davis Trucking.
The jurors concluded the truck driver who was killed along with five people on the California Zephyr was primarily to blame for the fiery crash in northern Nevada’s high desert about 60 miles northeast of Reno.
Lawyers for the trucking company argued in a motion for a rehearing that Judge Howard McKibben should have instructed the jury to consider evidence suggesting a faulty signal and crossing gate could have contributed to the collision on U.S. Highway 95 just south of U.S. Interstate 80.
Read more: www.nevadaappeal.com/news/20359343-113/45m-award-to-amtrak-upheld-in-deadly-nevada