California Court of Appeal

In a personal injury claim involving an auto collision with a commercial tractor-trailor, the trial court's refusal to instruct the jury pursuant to the federal standard of care requiring "extreme care" as opposed to the reasonable care standard constituted prejudicial error requiring a remand for a new trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/07/2005
• Published 11/07/2005

Judges

• HASTINGS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mathews & Rager, Charles T. Mathews, Pasadena, and Jeffrey A. Ragar;  Law Offices of Roxanne Huddleston and Roxanne Huddleston, Los Angeles, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Horvitz & Levy, Stephen E. Norris and Kim L. Nguyen, Encino;  Klute & Pennell and E. Wallace Dingman, San Bernardina, for Defendants and Respondents.