A Tragic story, Negligence! I hope the families sued this truck driver for 900 million dollars.
Unfortunately, unless the driver was an irresponsible rich kid, the bikers’ family won’t see all the money the need.
If driver had auto insurance, he likely had only the bare minimum. So each biker or his/her family will get about $7,600 from the driver’s insurance. See page bates-numbered 1 at
https://www.nh.gov/insurance/consumers/documents/nh_auto_guide.pdf ($50k bodily injury coverage, plus $25k property damage coverage, plus $1k medical coverage, $76k total divided by 10)
Looks like the transport company was bonded. My best guess is that the transport company was $1 million bonded. This means that each of the seven deceased biker’s family would get around $140k, while each of the three survived biker’s would get around $7k.
https://www.quicktransportsolutions...tts/westfield-transport-inc-usdot-2896429.php.
The biker’s families will likely each see some payouts from their own insurance’s underinsured coverage, if purchased. Thank USAA, popular with vets, for its relatively low rates.
I know you’re all thinking about lawsuit recovery or collection. Unfortunately, collection is limited to 25 percent of a person’s weekly earnings OVER $217.50. Something tells me the driver doesn’t make that much money, so there won’t be much to recover.
Additionally, the driver may bankrupt all judgments, as well the transport company once all insurance exhausted.
God bless, prayers for, and wishes for the families. But it doesn’t look like they will recover everything they need.
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