On behalf of the Barclay Damon Transportation Team, it is my pleasure to once again present our annual transportation law update. As always, we have selected some of the interesting cases decided in the last calendar year and provided summaries with occasional commentary. With a new administration in Washington DC, we can expect regulatory changes in the near future, and we will be following them along with the development of the case law as we begin to prepare for next year’s update.
One piece of statutory or regulatory change that has been anticipated for some time is an increase in the mandatory insurance requirements for interstate motor carriers. The current limit requirements have been in place since the early 1980s. Perhaps tired of waiting for FMCSA to act, New Jersey enacted new legislation increasing the required insurance for New Jersey–based commercial vehicles weighing over 26,001 pounds to $1.5 million (Section 19). Will anyone else follow suit?
Among our entries this year is an assessment by Mario Paez of Marsh McLennan of the threat that cyber criminals pose to the trucking industry (Section 6). We thank Mario for his work and Marsh for making his assessment available to our readers. Kaitlyn McClaine has taken over the cargo desk (Section 4), and Lee Jacobs, one of the firm’s employment lawyers, takes on the driver classification problem and related issues (Section 2).
As always, we look forward to hearing from you.
Read more here.