Supreme Court Turns Down Trinity Guardrail Fraud Award Reinstatement Bid January 9, 2019 By Nate Raymond The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a whistleblower’s bid to revive a $663.4 million judgment against Trinity Industries...
Nebraska Officials to Remove Omaha-Made Guardrail End Caps February 8, 2018 State transportation officials plan to remove highway guardrail end caps manufactured by a Nebraska company that have been the subject...
Appeals Court Panel Overturns $663M Guardrail Fraud Verdict October 2, 2017 Three appeals court judges have overturned a $663 million fraud verdict against a company that makes guardrails found along many...
Pickup Goes Airborne After Virginia Tests Trinity Guardrail System October 6, 2015 By Patrick G. Lee and Valerie Reitman A pickup went airborne while a small car came to an upright stop in two crash tests of a guardrail...
Trinity Guardrail to Undergo Further Testing in Virginia August 31, 2015 By Patrick G. Lee Trinity Industries Inc.’s guardrail system will undergo additional crash testing by Virginia, raising new questions about a device on roadways...
Guardrail Fraud Award Grows to $663M to Trinity’s Dismay June 11, 2015 By Patrick G. Lee Trinity Industries Inc., maker of a highway guardrail safety system tied to at least nine deaths, must pay $663 million...
Trinity Shareholders Sue Over Guardrail Disclosures May 1, 2015 Trinity Industries Inc. was sued by shareholders alleging the company failed to disclose it made changes to its guardrail safety...
Justice Department Subpoenas Trinity in Guardrail Safety Probe April 30, 2015 By Patrick G. Lee Trinity Industries Inc. has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Justice Department over its allegedly defective guardrail safety system. The subpoena,...
Highway Agency Probe Sought in Connection With Guardrail Safety March 4, 2015 By Patrick G. Lee Six U.S. senators asked for an investigation of the Federal Highway Administration’s monitoring of roadside safety devices, including a common...
Highway Official Stood By Guardrail System Even as Doubt Mounted November 5, 2014 By Patrick G. Lee U.S. highway safety officials defended a widely used guardrail system’s crashworthiness even as they worried whether its design had been...