FAIR Trucking Act

This bill lets certain truck crash lawsuits be heard in federal court. It covers cases with injuries or deaths that involve commercial trucks driving across state lines. To qualify, the claim must be more than $5 million, and the people suing and the companies involved must be from different states or countries. It also explains how to count the “home” of a group like an association: both where it mainly does business and where it was set up.

Key points:

• Who is affected: People hurt in crashes with interstate commercial trucks, and trucking companies.
• What changes: These lawsuits can go to federal court if the claim is over $5 million and the sides are from different states/countries; it also clarifies how to decide a group’s state for court purposes .
• Why it matters: It can move large, multi-state truck crash cases into federal court, which can handle disputes involving parties from different places.