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Recent court cases raise questions about trucking safety

By: Max BakerStar-Telegram Staff Writer

FORT WORTH

IESITX agreed to pay the family of Jimmy D. Jordan of Fort Worth $2.25 million in an out-of-court settlement reached late Thursday. The waste-disposal company and the family were scheduled to go to trial in a Tarrant County civil court next week, according to Steven Laird, an attorney representing the Jordan family. Jordan was killed in a March 2004 accident on Interstate 30.

This month a Tarrant County jury returned a $2 million verdict against the Fort Worth Carrier Corporation stemming from a 2001 crash in Missouri that killed a Tennessee man and injured his wife.

In the Texas crash, questions were raised about the garbage truck