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The broader ruling for the transportation industry came in Montgomery v

Caribe Transport II, LLC, where the court held that federal law does not automatically shield freight brokers from state negligent hiring lawsuits when they select unsafe trucking companies.

The case stems from a 2017 crash in Illinois in which a truck hit Shawn Montgomery’s tractor-trailer, badly injuring him.

His attorneys argued the broker ignored serious warning signs, including a prior careless driving citation involving the driver and at least three crashes involving the carrier over roughly five months.