The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a whistleblower’s bid to revive a $663.4 million judgment against Trinity Industries Inc. in a lawsuit accusing the company of failing to tell a federal agency about changes made to a guardrail …
State transportation officials plan to remove highway guardrail end caps manufactured by a Nebraska company that have been the subject of lawsuits across the country alleging safety defects. The Nebraska Department of Transportation said Monday in a news release that …
Three appeals court judges have overturned a $663 million fraud verdict against a company that makes guardrails found along many U.S. roads and highways. The panel of judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on …
A pickup went airborne while a small car came to an upright stop in two crash tests of a guardrail safety device linked in lawsuits to at least nine deaths. The tests Friday at the Karco Engineering LLC in the …
Trinity Industries Inc.’s guardrail system will undergo additional crash testing by Virginia, raising new questions about a device on roadways across the country. Some of Virginia’s six proposed tests on the ET-Plus, scheduled to begin in mid-September, will be different …
Trinity Industries Inc., maker of a highway guardrail safety system tied to at least nine deaths, must pay $663 million for defrauding the U.S. government. The decision by U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap in Marshall, Texas, caps Trinity’s three-year legal …
Trinity Industries Inc. was sued by shareholders alleging the company failed to disclose it made changes to its guardrail safety system without government review. At least two lawsuits were filed in federal court in Dallas accusing the company of making …
Trinity Industries Inc. has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Justice Department over its allegedly defective guardrail safety system. The subpoena, issued by U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz in Boston, seeks documents from 1999 and later regarding Trinity’s guardrail end terminals, which …
Six U.S. senators asked for an investigation of the Federal Highway Administration’s monitoring of roadside safety devices, including a common and allegedly defective guardrail system. The request on Tuesday is the latest in a series of actions stemming from scrutiny …
U.S. highway safety officials defended a widely used guardrail system’s crashworthiness even as they worried whether its design had been altered in a potentially deadly way, according to internal e-mails. Starting in 2012, a Federal Highway Administration engineer fielded e-mails …