DALLAS, Texas – Dallas-based Baron & Budd, P.C. has again been selected by The Legal 500 http://www.legal500.com as one of the country’s premier law firms in mass tort claims and class action litigation for the firm’s work on toxic tort claims. The directory describes mass tort firms as those who “have the gall to take [...]

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has signed into law a plan that will set new low-emissions standards for trucks carrying cargo in and out of the Port of Los Angeles. This plan is part of a $1.6 billion clean-air initiative. It is expected that the initiative will result in clearing more than 17,00 older diesel [...]

The Beaverton School District, near Portland, will almost $3 million—or between $12,000 and $14,000 per bus—to add equipment to 192 school buses that will cut air pollution and dangerous exposures to the particulates in diesel exhaust. The school district anticipates that the Oregon Department of Education will reimburse 70 percent of the total expense as [...]

Three men were killed in three different vehicular accidents in a single weekend in Rusk County, Wisconsin. All three accidents involved vehicle rollovers: an SUV, a pickup truck and an ATV. One man’s SUV—a 1999 Ford Expedition—rolled over as he rounded a curve; a passenger died when he was thrown from the vehicle during the [...]

Citing serious health problems associated with pollutants in Oakland’s air and across the Bay Area, several volunteers will hit the streets Tuesday seeking to curb what they say is a serious contributor to the problem: truck idling. “In 2005, children living in West Oakland were five times more likely to be hospitalized for asthma and [...]

On June 14, 2008, a county deputy and a volunteer firefighter were struck head-on and killed by a tractor trailer as they stood outside their vehicles while responding to an accident call. The truck driver had slowed down because visibility was impaired by fog and smoke from a nearby range fire, but troopers believed that [...]

Just after 7:30 this morning, three vehicles—including a pickup truck and an 18-wheeler—crashed and caught fire on Dallas’ LBJ Freeway. Two of the drivers were hospitalized for treatment. A person who exited her car near the scene was struck and killed by a passing car. The freeway was closed in both directions and serious traffic [...]

Using the example of an sleep-deprived Indiana truck driver who recently plowed through a Massachusetts construction area recent tractor-trailer accident in a construction zone, a Salem editorial noted that commercial driving regulations must be more aggressively enforced to protect public safety. Although no one was seriously hurt in that accident, the risk was very high. [...]