{"id":399,"date":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/wal-mart-reportedly-settles-wrongful-death-suit\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:28","slug":"wal-mart-reportedly-settles-wrongful-death-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wal-mart-reportedly-settles-wrongful-death-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart reportedly settles wrongful death suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trucking industry is arguably suffering with the weather that is affecting the northeast. There are reports of trucking accidents throughout the region, mainly due to snowy and icy roads. It suggests that there are sometimes instances where drivers, despite their efforts to use reasonable care, can be involved in accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are instances where reasonable care should have been used, and the lack of it results in an accident. In these instances, it is helpful when an offending party takes responsibility and moves to settle a lawsuit. This apparently was the case with the lawsuit stemming from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overdriveonline.com\/wal-marts-private-fleet-settles-wrongful-death-suit-from-tracy-morgan-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\">crash last summer involving a Wal-Mart truck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The truck crashed into a limousine bus carrying comedian Tracy Morgan and his entourage. Morgan and several others were seriously injured, and fellow comedian James \u00e2\u0080\u009cJimmy Mack\u00e2\u0080\u009d McNair was killed. After a lawsuit was filed, Wal-Mart initially claimed that it was not liable for the injuries suffered because the people in the limousine were not wearing their seatbelts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wal-mart-reportedly-settles-wrongful-death-suit\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Wal-Mart reportedly settles wrongful death suit\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trucking industry is arguably suffering with the weather that is affecting the northeast. There are reports of trucking accidents throughout the region, mainly due to snowy and icy roads. It suggests that there are sometimes instances where drivers, despite their efforts to use reasonable care, can be involved in accidents. Unfortunately, there are instances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-accidents","tag-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wal-Mart reportedly settles wrongful death suit &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; February 4, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wal-Mart reportedly settles wrongful death suit - Truck Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wal-mart-reportedly-settles-wrongful-death-suit\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Wal-Mart reportedly settles wrongful death suit &#8212; 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