Jury ‘clobbers’ company in injured-worker verdict

Jurors want a Baltimore truck driver to receive $1.95 million for being hit by a cement mixer.

Richard L. Howard probably won’t get most of that money, because $1.86 million of it was awarded for pain and suffering — which falls under the state’s limit of $650,000 from the time of the accident. 

The Anne Arundel County jury found Richard A. Schulman and his former employer, Lafarge Mid-Atlantic LLC, liable for Howard’s trauma.

Schulman was driving a truck that hit Howard and killed his co-worker, Errol Johnson, as the men worked on their disabled Goodwill Industries rig on the shoulder of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in April 2005. Lafarge settled with Johnson’s family last March.

Joseph F. Zauner III, who represented the defendants, said the jury “went off” and “clobbered us.”

— The Daily Record