Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC · ¶14

Montgomery sued Varela-Mojena, Caribe Transport, C.H. Robinson, and corporate entities associated with them. Among other claims, he alleged that C.H. Robinson was liable for his injuries because it negligently hired VarelaMojena and Caribe Transport. Montgomery claimed that Caribe Transport had a “ `conditional' ” safety rating from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration when C.H. Robinson hired it. App. 21. That agency had allegedly found Caribe Transport to be deficient “with respect to qualification of drivers,” “hours of service of drivers,” “inspection, repair and maintenance,” “recordable crash rate,” and more. Id., at 20–21 (internal quotation marks omitted). Based on that safety rating, Montgomery claimed that C.H. Robinson knew (or should have known) that choosing Caribe Transport to transport goods was reasonably likely to result in crashes that would injure others.

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