Back when Damian Labeaud first started veering into 18-wheelers in New Orleans for a living, you had to get in line, he told a jury Thursday over hours of testimony in a federal courtroom.
It was 2010, and “slammers” like the one he would become clustered beneath the Claiborne Avenue overpass, he said, brokering seats in cars to careen into big rigs for large insurance payouts.
If you paid the slammers directly, you could choose your own lawyer to sue for bogus injuries, he said. If not, they’d direct you to one willing to pay them for the bodies…