While the immediate impacts of the ruling have yet to fully take shape, what's clear is that moving forward, freight brokers will have to take on substantially more liability.

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II that federal law does not shield freight ...

On May 14, 2026, a unanimous Supreme Court decision held that state-law negligent-hiring claims against freight brokers are not preempted by ...

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on May 14, 2026, that freight brokers can be sued under state negligence law for ...

A notice has been going out to carriers in the C.H. Robinson network, and it is worth reading carefully because of what may ...

The Supreme Court ruled May 14 that freight brokers can face some state negligence lawsuits, though analysts said the decision was narrower than many feared. Analysts said only safety-related claims ...

Cargo theft and freight fraud are forcing brokerages to rethink how freight moves through trusted systems. As organized theft ...

The Supreme Court has issued its ruling on the anticipated broker liability case: Freight brokers can be found liable for ...

The Supreme Court ruled in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport that freight brokers can face negligent hiring claims under the FAAAA safety exception.

Beyond the near-term impact of higher fuel prices and the closure of a major shipping lane, freight and logistics networks ...

“The negligent-hiring tort against brokers, like the negligence tort against trucking companies, exists to keep unsafe trucks and unsafe drivers off America’s highways,” wrote Justice Kavanaugh in a ...