How Do Sideswipe Collision Cases Involving Semi Trucks (18-Wheelers) Work?
Sideswiped by a 18-wheeler in Texas? This article will help you understand how the trucking company may be held liable for damages. Semi-trucks can often weigh as much as 80,000 pounds and usually take up an entire lane on roads and highways. As a result, if a truck driver is not giving his or her...
How Do Auto Accident Claims Involving United States Postal Service (USPS) Vehicles Work?
This article answers important questions about vehicle accident cases involving the United States Postal Service (USPS). First and foremost, if you're hurt by a truck owned by the United States Postal Service, your legal case is 100% different than a case against a privately-owned carrier (like Fed-Ex or UPS). However, mail drivers get into accidents...
What Types of Compensation Are Available to Injured Truck Drivers?
Attorney Michael Grossman explains how his firm has been helping injured truck drivers for 25 years While many injury law firms portray truck drivers in a negative light, linking them to all kinds of evil on our highways, in our experience the vast majority of truck drivers are skilled professionals who make a living doing...
When Can Truckers Hurt by Their Co-Driver Sue?
If you were injured in a truck accident by your co-driver, Michael Grossman explain that the doesn't always work the way you think it does. In long-haul trucking, it is quite common for there to be two drivers for a single truck. This minimizes a truck's down time on longer, transcontinental trips and allows loads...
Who is to Blame in Single-Vehicle Truck Accidents?
Single-vehicle truck accidents always the truck driver's fault? No. Here's why: When most people hear about a single-vehicle truck accident, they assume that the driver must be to blame. After all, if there was no one else involved, who else could be at fault? Sadly, in a number of these accidents, factors beyond the driver's...
How Do Wrongful Death Truck Accident Cases Work in Texas?
How Wrongful Death Truck Accident Cases Work Losing a loved one is never easy. But losing a loved one due to something that is entirely preventable creates a pain all its own. Each year, thousands of families learn this firsthand by losing a loved one to an accident involving a commercial vehicle, such as an...
What Do Victims Need to Understand About the Opposition in Truck Accident Cases?
Understanding the Opposition in a Fatal Truck Accident Case As discussed in further detail on our page explaining the basics of these crashes, accidents with commercial vehicles need to be handled differently than those involving passenger vehicles. At Grossman Law Offices, one of the ways we prepare to do so is by researching our opponents,...
Do Trucking Companies Have to Compensate Families?
Are Trucking Companies Required to Compensate Families of Fatal Accidents? Having represented hundreds of families who have lost loved ones, we certainly know that money is not the primary motivation for filing wrongful death lawsuits. But, in America, civil justice is meted out by forcing bad actors to pay their victims. And while most people...
Do Insurance Carriers Have to Pay for Funeral Expenses?
Who Pays for Funeral Expenses Following a Fatal Truck Accident? Following a fatal accident with a commercial vehicle, there are a lot of expenses that need to be taken into account. We often get asked who is responsible for the funeral expenses of the deceased. You might expect that this is a cost that the...
Which Family Members Can File Suit?
Under Texas Law, Which Family Members Can File a Wrongful Death Truck Accident Lawsuit? When 40 ton 18-wheelers are involved in an accident, the sheer size of the truck greatly increases the likelihood that the crash will be a fatal one. This leaves families without a mother, father, sister, daughter, or cousin. Texas law recognizes...
How Does Mediating a Commercial Vehicle Case Work?
Mediation can get you the compensation you deserve, without ever stepping foot inside a courtroom In the multi-stage process of litigating a commercial vehicle accident claim, mediation is the last stop before trial. It is essentially the civil justice system's attempt to broker a compromise that satisfies both parties. As you may know, settlement is...
How Does Trying a Commercial Vehicle Case in Texas Work?
An Overview of Truck Accident Jury Trials - by Texas Truck Accident Attorney Michael Grossman You've probably heard by now that most cases settle. The expense and time that trying a case before a jury require can lead even the most disagreeable parties to the negotiating table. Trials can be risky for both parties. No...
How Do Lawyers Collect and Distribute Compensation to Truck Accident Clients?
When you win a personal injury or wrongful death suit, you'll receive compensation. Once a truck accident case is settled or won in a jury trial, the compensation you're rewarded will be disbursed. In this article, we're going to explain how that process works. Where does the money come from? A trucking company will compensate...
Why Do Trucking Companies Try to Blame Unidentified Vehicles for Crashes?
How Trucking Companies Try to Shift Blame Onto a Mystery Vehicle Among the many strategies trucking companies may try to avoid being held accountable for a crash is the "phantom car" defense, where they blame the accident on some mystery car. These vehicles apparently travel from place to place, cause wrecks involving semi-trucks, and then...
How Do Trucking Companies Use the Comparative Fault Defense Unfairly?
How Trucking Companies Use the Comparative Fault Defense Unfairly There exists a defense argument under Texas law known as the "comparative fault defense." While this defense is intended to be used to allow a negligent defendant to not be unfairly blamed for the whole extent of an accident when he or she is not entirely...
How Can Social Media Affect Your Truck Accident Case?
Trucking company lawyers will try to discredit your case using anything they can. That includes your social media posts. Social media is almost impossible not to engage in today. Many people have a false sense of privacy and feel that their social media activity is off-limits when it comes to their truck accident case. But...
How Does Truck Accident Litigation Work in Texas?
Litigating truck accident cases under Texas law: A complete walk-through by attorney Michael Grossman. Most people believe that when an accident with an 18-wheeler happens, the trucking company is obligated to pay the victims fair compensation. In reality, you must hire an attorney and make them pay. While every bit of an attorney's leverage in...
Do Drunk or Intoxicated Truck Accident Victims Have a Viable Case?
Trucking companies try and shift blame for accidents onto their victims by claiming they were intoxicated at the time of the crash. In this article, we'll discuss the defense strategy trucking companies use in which they argue that the other party's intoxication was the true cause of a crash, not the truck driver's negligence. When...
How Do Trucking Companies Use Family Issues to Devalue Your Claim?
How trucking companies make victim's or their family members look bad, and how that could impact your case Trucking companies facing the substantial costs of a civil suit after a crash love nothing more than to try to portray good families as dysfunctional to lower the jury's opinion of the plaintiff. If you've been in...
Can a Trucking Company Defend Itself by Claiming a Victim Was Sick or Elderly?
How trucking companies use a victim's age or health conditions to devalue their claim One defense strategy we've seen trucking companies use in wrongful death cases is arguing that, because the victim of a crash was old or sickly, their death is less significant and therefore should be considered less valuable to those left behind....