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March 13th, 2006

"$15.6 Million Compensated to Family Involved in Trucking Accident"

Last week, a federal judge approved a $15.6 million settlement to a family who suffered severe personal injury in a devastating trucking accident in 2001.

The suit filed by Mary and Allan J. Pierce against System Transport Services of Spokane, Wash., claimed the trucking company''s negligence caused the death of their son and serious injury to the couple both physically and mentally.

According to the family''s attorney, Stephen M. Libman, in Sept. 2001, the Pierce family pulled over on the side of a freeway in Indiana to change a flat tire. Allan Pierce got out to fix the tire and his wife got out to watch. They left their son in the vehicle strapped in his car seat.

A semi truck carrying two large cherry-picker lifts, which weighed more than 44,000 pounds rolled over as it was coming out of a construction zone. One of the lifts hit Allan Pierce''s leg, severing it at the knee. It went on to strike the car setting it into flames.

Mary Pierce watched as her 6-year-old son was killed and her husband lost his leg.

Libman said the trucking company used the �cheapest and most unsafe method� to transfer the heavy load and failed to uphold its responsibility toward safety.

The company''s negligence, Libman said, resulted in the death of a child, a devastating injury, and emotional trauma suffered by the family.

According to Libman, another purpose of the lawsuit was to bring attention to the unsafe, unstable, high-gravity loads on flatbed trucks, which pose a danger to anyone driving on the freeway. The family hopes the governor and the trucking industry will do something about this issue.

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