A $604 million verdict against freight broker C.H. Robinson raises significant questions about how brokers can limit their liability while still conducting sufficient due diligence when selecting motor carriers.
In a Law360 article examining the verdict, FBT Gibbons Partner Charles Galvin discusses the balance brokers now face following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II.
“There’s a very fine line that we’re walking post-Montgomery in how brokers can strike the right balance in selecting carriers for loads,” Galvin says.
Galvin, a litigation attorney in the firm’s West Chester office, also addresses the jury’s finding that the driver is a “borrowed employee” of C.H. Robinson and how exercising too much control over the carrier-selection process may create additional exposure.