Rulings On Experts Play Into Judge’s $3.7 Million Award For Motorcyclist’s Death

(April 16, 2018, 11:52 AM EDT) -- FLORENCE, S.C. — The widow of a motorcyclist killed in a crash involving a U.S. mail vehicle was awarded $3.7 million in damages from the federal government April 12 by a South Carolina federal judge, who upheld two government experts’ use of several driving safety standards and then relied on their testimony to find that the motorcyclist was also slightly at fault for following other cyclists in his group too closely (Kimberly L. Jackson v. United States, No. 4:16-cv-03219, D. S.C., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 61922)....