Company Hit With $5.5 Million Award By Alabama Jury For Trailer Blocking Highway

Mealey's (September 23, 2019, 7:26 PM EDT) -- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — After a default judgment was entered against a scrap metal company on negligence, an Alabama jury awarded $5.5 million in damages on Sept. 17 to the widow of a driver who died after his vehicle hit a company trailer that was blocking both lanes of a highway (Tamara Jean Peace, et al. v. Keith Rock, et al., No. 18-41, N.D. Ala.)....