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A loaded tractor-trailer weighs about twenty times what your car does. The company behind it has a team on the road within hours — you should have one too.
Personal Injury · Accidents
Major carriers and their insurers run rapid response teams. They photograph the scene, interview the driver, retain their own reconstruction expert and get out in front of the claim while the injured person is still in an emergency room. That is not wrongdoing; it is process. The problem is when the injured side takes three months to start.
A preservation letter goes out immediately in these cases. It puts the carrier on notice that this material must be kept, and it makes convenient destruction a problem for them rather than for you.
The driver is the obvious defendant, and often the least well insured. Behind them may sit the motor carrier, the company that owned the trailer, a broker or shipper that arranged the load, a maintenance contractor, or a parts manufacturer. Sorting out who is liable is what puts real coverage behind the claim, and commercial policies are written in figures that ordinary auto policies never reach.
Past and future medical care, including rehabilitation and long-term attendant care. Lost income and the earning capacity taken away when someone cannot return to the work they trained for. Pain, impairment and disfigurement. And where a family lost someone, wrongful death and survival damages.
Injury cases are handled on a contingency fee: nothing to talk to us, nothing upfront, and the firm is paid out of the recovery. If there is no recovery there is no fee. The percentage and how case expenses are handled are in writing before you sign anything.
More evidence, more parties and more insurance. Commercial carriers are governed by federal safety rules and have investigators working the crash within hours.
The driver's hours-of-service logs, the truck's onboard data, maintenance and inspection records, the driver qualification file, and the cargo documents.
Some of it can be purged on a lawful retention schedule once time passes. A preservation letter early is what stops that from happening quietly.
The motor carrier, the trailer owner, a broker or shipper, a maintenance contractor, or a parts manufacturer, depending on what caused the collision.
No. A broad release lets their insurer comb your entire medical history for something else to blame. Records get produced properly, through counsel.
It helps, and carriers routinely contest it. The case usually moves on to the company's own conduct: hiring, training, scheduling and maintenance.
The claim becomes a wrongful death and survival case. Those have their own rules about who may bring them, and they should be set up correctly from the beginning.
The injuries are usually more severe and the available insurance is usually far larger, but the value still comes from the evidence and the harm, not from the size of the truck.
Longer than a two-car collision, because there is more to investigate and more parties involved. Cases worked properly are the ones that resolve properly.
No. They work for the carrier and their job is to reduce what the carrier pays. Send them to us.
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