A deaf man who says a truck driving company told him that they would not hire him because he couldn't hear won over $36 million in damages by a jury a month ago.
Victor Robinson, who is in his 40s and has lived his whole life deaf, told ABC News that Werner Enterprises trucking company passed him in their commercial driver's license training program, but when he applied for a job in 2016, the company's Vice President of Safety and Compliance Jamie Hamm, who was Jamie Maus at the time, told him he wouldn't get the job.
"That fact has baffled us from the beginning," Josh Pierson, Robinson's lawyer, told ABC News."The fact that Victor and other deaf drivers can complete training school, can get their CDL, even attend training schools owned by Werner but then aren't allowed to drive for the company, ultimately." According to Robinson, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration gave him a hearing exemption required of most truck drivers. It is common for the FMCSA to give exemptions to professionals with disabilities, such as diabetes, amputations, or hearing loss, Pierson said.Pierson believes that Werner will file an appeal to the jury's decision, reducing the amount awarded to Robinson to $300,000 because of a statutory cap for punitive damages, which a corporation would pay under the ADA.
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