HAYS COUNTY, Texas — A jury in Hays County has returned a $46 million verdict in the case of an oil field worker who was run over and killed by a truck driver at a well site southeast of San Antonio in 2019.
The jury found truck driver Gerald Walker and John Dotson Trucking liable for negligence in the death of 34-year-old Andrew West in 2019, who died after Walker ran him over at a Devon Energy well site in DeWitt County before leaving the scene. The jury assigned Walker 90 percent of the responsibility and placed the remaining 10 percent on the trucking company.
The jury also found that Walker and the trucking company were operating for the benefit of Colorado Materials Ltd, and were subject to their control at the time of West’s death…