fair-trucking-act

ATA: FAIR Act Would End ‘Forum Shopping’

American Trucking Associations voiced its “strong support” for the Forum Accountability and Integrity in Roadway (FAIR) Trucking Act that would end the abusive practice of “forum shopping” by giving federal courts jurisdiction over consequential cases involving interstate trucking. Forum shopping is a tactic commonly employed by trial lawyers to move cases to favorable state jurisdictions and engineer the award of nuclear verdicts against trucking companies that go far beyond actual harm. “The ... [+]