{"id":389112,"date":"2026-07-28T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389112\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:48:19","slug":"dallas-trucking-company-hit-with-604-million-verdict-for-2021-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389112\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas trucking company hit with $604 million verdict for 2021 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-week jury trial concluded in Dallas Thursday with a $604 million\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/courts\/?logged_in=true\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">verdict<\/a> against a Dallas-based trucking company, the driver and a freight brokerage company in a wrongful death case.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors found the driver of the 18-wheeler 45 percent negligent, Lupus 32 percent negligent and C.H. Robinson 23 percent negligent. They further found the driver caused 55 percent of the accident and Lupus 45 percent. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lipe, Benjamin Brewer and Rhoderick Coleman died in the accident. Working through a 27-page charge, jurors awarded Lipe\u2019s family $280 million, Brewer\u2019s family $143.5 million and Coleman\u2019s family $150.5 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Two other plaintiffs, Gabrielle Broussard and Rodney Hawkins, were awarded a total of $30 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold &amp; Itkin\u2019s Roland Christensen, who did not respond to a request for comment Friday, wrote on LinkedIn that he had asked the jury for $554 million and, after three days of deliberation, they awarded $604 million.<\/p>\n<p>The jury found that C.H. Robinson negligently hired the motor carrier and was also liable for the driver\u2019s conduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf insurers will pay fair, the verdicts go away. But when they won\u2019t, I\u2019m happy to go get the job done,\u201d Christensen wrote on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>C.H. Robinson issued a statement to The Texas Lawbook extending its \u201cdeepest sympathies to everyone affected by this tragic accident\u201d but vowing to immediately appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cC.H. Robinson should not be held liable and did not act negligently,\u201d Dorothy Capers, chief legal officer at C.H. Robinson, stated. \u201cThe carrier had safely delivered nearly 270 loads for our customers and held a Satisfactory [Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration] rating when we selected it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-week jury trial concluded in Dallas Thursday with a $604 million\u00a0verdict against a Dallas-based trucking company, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-389112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}