A suit against a North Carolina trucking company that rebuffed the job application of a deaf driver will proceed after the carrier’s request for summary judgment was denied.

Werner Enterprises has lost on appeal in a case that at one point saw it facing a $36 million penalty for not hiring a deaf driver–later reduced by a federal court–who had gone through a company ...

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a $375,000 judgment against Omaha-based Werner Enterprises for not hiring an over-the-road driver because he was deaf. Werner had sought a new trial, ...