A Middlesex County judge on March 19 approved a $931,000 settlement in Scala v. TMS Logistics Inc., a suit filed by the family of a man who was killed when his vehicle was struck from behind by a truck.
According to counsel and electronic court documents, on April 23, 2018, John Scala was driving eastbound on U.S. 46 in Little Falls, slowing for traffic, when a truck owned by TMS Logistics Inc. of Wallington and driven by employee Shadi Makanast struck him from behind, crushing his vehicle between the truck and the vehicle in front of him. Scala, 48, died at the scene, said the family’s lawyer, Barry D. Epstein of the Epstein Law Firm in Rochelle Park.
