In Estate of Malkin v. Transport Expressway Inc., an Orange County New York jury awarded over $29 million to a family that was involved in a fatal motor-vehicle accident on the New York State Thruway on January 25, 2002. The plaintiff driver was driving on the northbound side of the New York State Thruway, near an underpass that crossed beneath Pleasant Hill Road, in Mountainville, New York. The plaintiff driver's husband was a front-seat passenger and the couple's 15 year old daughter was a rear-seat passenger. At the time of the accident, a trucker in front of the family attempted to travel beneath the overpass, but the truck's payload struck the underside of the overpass causing a freight container to fall off the truck and shatter on the highway. As the plaintiff driver tried to avoid the container, the family's vehicle was hit by a second truck causing it to go off the highway, killing the husband injuring his wife and daughter. The jury found that the accident was caused by negligent overloading of a tractor-trailer. www.foleygriffin.com
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