Truck Accidents

When you have been seriously hurt in an accident or have actually lost a family member in a fatal crash including a large truck, having a personal injury lawyer with you at the earliest stage can make a massive difference in the outcome of your case. Trucking businesses often have mitigation teams in place, prepared to react at a moment's notice to safeguard the company's monetary interests by trying to find any factor to avoid taking responsibility for any accident, which might suggest obscuring proof or trying to place the blame on the injured party, so it is essential to get your attorney's investigative team to begin working for you while the evidence is still available.

Because truck accidents are challenging and complicated relative to other highway accidents most of the time, they need to be managed by an experienced Laurel truck accident lawyer. In addition to the elements that come into play in any vehicular accident -- driver mishaps, speed, and so forth -- there are specific matters distinctive to trucks, including:

• Whether the driver received the legally required specialized training.
• Whether the loading or protecting of the cargo was involved and if so, who was accountable for loading.
• Relationships between owners, maintenance personnel, shippers, truck drivers, and other parties involved with the truck and its load should be sorted out.
• The guidelines of commercial trucking by state and federal government agencies.
• The potentially disastrous nature of injuries due to the disparity in size and weight between a truck and a passenger vehicle.

Truck crashes frequently lead to catastrophic injuries and death. Some of the more common injuries suffered by truck accident victims include:

• Brain Injuries
• Spine Injuries
• Paraplegia and Quadriplegia (Tetraplegia)
• Internal Bleeding
• Organ Damage
• Major Fractures
• Burn Injuries
• Amputation Injuries
• Neck and Back Injuries
• Herniated Discs
• Facial Injuries
• Scarring and Disfiguration
• Chronic Pain
• Mental Trauma