Negligent-selection caselaw
The verdicts that rewrote broker liability.
Three cases every freight broker, insurer, and shipper should be able to recite. Each one turns on a question with a one-dollar answer: did you have the paper?
2004 · $23.8M
Schramm v. Foster
The case that put 'negligent selection' on every broker's risk register. The court held that a broker owes a duty of reasonable care in selecting a motor carrie…
Read the case →2014 · $23.7M
Sperl v. C.H. Robinson
A jury found the broker so deeply involved in dictating the carrier's schedule and conduct that it was vicariously liable for the carrier's crash. The verdict w…
Read the case →2022 · $100M+
GrayCo / TQL nuclear verdict
One of the largest negligent-selection verdicts ever entered against a freight broker. The verdict crystalized the modern plaintiff playbook: pull the FMCSA his…
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