NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A lawsuit against a trucking company whose driver was accused of falling asleep at the wheel has been settled, and the outcome may be surprising.

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The case began when a truck loaded with Honda parts slammed into gas pumps at a market in Christiana three years ago.

But after three years, Myra Pruitt still struggled to talk about her husband, Sammy Pruitt. He was killed while pumping gas.

Myra Pruitt isn't the only one who suffered. Stacy Luna was hurt when the trucker flipped his pickup, and the market is also out thousands of dollars in damages.

Though there was a great amount of damage, they all will share less than $1 million in the settlement, which is before legal fees are paid.

The settlement is that small because $1 million in insurance is all that most trucking companies are required to carry, Channel 4's Nancy Amons reported.

"That wasn't even a start with that many people," Myra Pruitt said.

"It makes me angry," said Pruitt's attorney Ken Burger. "Anytime I'm on the interstate and somebody blows by me in a way that makes me uncomfortable, if that guy, a trucker, kills me and my family and even other people around us, there is a $1 million liability policy that's going to stand good for that? The law needs to be changed. "

Burger said he thinks the minimum should be $5 million.

A lot of large companies -- like Honda in this case -- hire independent contractors, which means that the big company's liability is very limited, Amons said.

The trucking company in Sammy Pruitt's case is a mom-and-pop-type operation in Ohio with leased trucks and no real assets. Honda ended up with no liability for the crash.

When all is said and done, Myra Pruitt will receive less than $500,000 even though there is no dispute that the trucker who killed her husband was at fault.

The truck driver was never ticketed because falling asleep at the wheel is not a crime in Tennessee. The driver's commercial driver's license is clean, and he got another job driving a truck.