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Torts/Personal Injury

Nov. 9, 2026

Jury awards $21.9M over fatal garbage truck crash

Jurors found a Republic Services subsidiary and its driver partly at fault, citing an inadequate rear underride guard, but placed most of the blame on the 18-year-old driver whose car slid beneath the truck.

A Los Angeles jury awarded $21.9 million to the family of a man killed in a 2019 garbage truck collision and a passenger who survived with severe brain injuries.

Jurors reached a liability verdict on Oct. 13, followed by the damages verdict Nov. 4.

The trial lasted nearly two months before Superior Court Judge Bernie C. LaForteza in Chatsworth, where jurors found Consolidated Disposal Service LLC - a Republic Services subsidiary - and its driver, Logan Jose Lizares, negli...

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