Monty Cain
Transcript
Hello everybody, this is Monty Cain with Cain Law and wanted to introduce our mascot at the office. This is Leonard, and he helps us at trials to show injuries that our clients have. So him and I are going to talk a little bit about Cox versus Mize, and it involved negligent entrustment. And what negligent entrustment is, if the commercial motor vehicle carrier hires a bad driver, so they've been in multiple accidents, they've had multiple speeding tickets, they've been over their hours, which they're They're limited on hours that they can drive. Those types of things, if they hire that person and put them in a truck and then they have an accident with you and injure you, now all Oklahomans can bring a claim against the actual commercial carrier, the semi-truck company, and get compensated for claims of hiring that person, putting them in the vehicle, letting them drive.
Or if they hire them and then they have multiple accidents while they're employed with them, Have multiple moving violations, or they're over their hours a lot, things of that nature, and they keep letting them drive for them, and then they end up having an accident and hurt somebody. And they're driving an 80,000-pound vehicle that when they get in accidents, typically they're more catastrophic. We get, you know, a lot of death claims as well as seriously injured people in those. So BMI is something we took up to the Supreme Court and changed the law, and Leonard and I would be glad to help you if you have a claim in that area. Remember,.