The Latest Threat to the Owner-Operator Model

Doug Marcello That phrase appears in Sedgwick's Summer 2026 liability litigation report — attributed originally to the Institute for Legal Reform — to describe what nuclear verdicts produce beyond the courtroom: a perception of risk that inflates settlement values in...

The Supreme Court's Montgomery v. Caribe ruling is being talked about as a broker liability case. For trucking companies, that framing misses the point. This decision changes who brokers will do business with, on what terms, and at what price—and carriers who don't...