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Toronto,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking (CAN) -9 April 2007: -- The Niles, Ill.-based Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA) provides resources in the handling of individual claims, assists members in reducing overall exposure, and offers information on expert witnesses, legal theories, and trucking-specific legal solutions. And now the 1,100-member group is moving north to Canada, partnering with the Ontario Trucking Association and folding into its network a handful of Canadian lawyers, insurers, and risk management professionals... For most Canadian cross-border truckers there are very few unknowns about our neighbor to the south... But ask any driver who's been hauled in front of an American judge and jury to explain a trucking-related accident, and they'll tell you that in some cases Cheyenne, Wyoming can feel about as familiar as Cyprus... TIDA counters the hyper litigious culture in the U.S. that targets truck drivers... Many carriers -- especially smaller fleets whose business counsel doubles as the family lawyer/brother in-law -- are out of their depth after an incident in the hyper-litigious U.S., where, arguably, accident lawyers view truckers as their own private ATM machines... For 20 years, there's been a network of American carriers, insurers, and attorneys dedicated to the pre-emptive defense of truckers against this well-organized, litigious machine...
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