Puga v. RCX Solutions, Inc.

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Plaintiff and his wife filed suit after a contract driver for RCX, a licensed motor carrier, crashed into plaintiff's truck and significantly injured him. A jury found RCX liable for the driver's negligence and awarded plaintiff damages and his wife loss of consortium damages.The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's choice of jury instructions; held that Trooper Smith was properly admitted to testify as an expert on accident investigation; and affirmed the district court's decision to uphold the jury's award for past and future loss of consortium. The court reversed and remanded to the district court for the sole purpose of calculating the appropriate settlement credit amount and modifying its final judgment accordingly. In this case, plaintiff agreed that RXC was entitled to settlement credits. View "Puga v. RCX Solutions, Inc." on Justia Law