How Can The Type of Vehicle Affects Your Truck Accident Case?
How does the type of vehicle involved in a commercial vehicle accident impact your case? When most people think of commercial vehicles, they usually think of 18-wheelers. However, there are actually a fairly a broad spectrum of commercial vehicles ranging from smaller delivery vans to large 18-wheelers. Below, we'll discuss some of the ways your...
How Do Accident Cases with Flatbed Trucks Work?
How Accident Cases with Flatbed Trucks Work Flatbed trailers serve a very useful purpose, namely the transport of several kinds of bulky, over-sized parts and products that won't fit into a closed tractor-trailer. However, they also create unique risks that other commercial vehicles don't. Sometimes this oversized cargo can cause very serious accidents. For example,...
What Makes Tanker Truck Accident Cases So Complex?
How Accident Cases with Tanker Trucks Work Many people think of commercial vehicles as haulers of manufactured goods, food, and other solid freight. However, the duty of a tanker truck is different: from place to place, and state to state, it transports liquids and even gases to various destinations. From the fuel that keeps industry...
How Do Lawsuits Against Intoxicated Drivers 18-Wheeler Drivers Work?
Holding Drunk Truckers Responsible Isn't Impossible Truck drivers are like many other jobs out there. They have long hours, they're stressful, driver's spend long periods away from their families, and they have deadlines and time crunches to meet. So like many other people, they like to blow off steam when they get off work, and...
What Do I Do if I Was Injured by an 18-Wheeler Running a Red Light?
Injured by an 18-wheeler that ran a red light? An attorney can help. When an 18-wheeler or a semi-truck runs a red light, the consequences can be disastrous for whoever they hit. If that person was you or a loved one, this article will explain what your next steps need to be and how to...
Who Is Responsible for Wrecks Caused by Unsecured Loads?
Truck Accidents Caused by Unsecured Cargo After a serious tractor-trailer accident, most folks tend to blame the driver by default. He was driving, there was an accident, therefore he must have done something wrong. However, the some accidents may occur without any real fault on the driver if the trailer is improperly loaded. When their...
What Are the Most Common Truck Accident Injuries?
The Most Common Truck Accident Injuries Anytime there's an 18-wheeler involved in a collision, the likelihood of serious injury increases substantially. In this article, we'll be taking a look at some of the most common types of injuries incurred in a crash with an 18-wheeler. Questions Answered on This Page: What are some common truck...
Who Is Responsible for Wrecks Involving Illegally Parked 18-Wheelers?
How Do Accidents With Parked 18-Wheelers Work? When an 18-wheeler is parked on the shoulder of a roadway or stopped in a lane of traffic, this can lead to a particularly devastating type of accident that can result in long-term, disabling injuries and, in many instances, fatalities. The disparity in mass between an automobile and...
Who Is Liable when an 18-Wheeler Hits a Pedestrian in Texas?
Few accidents are as devastating as a collision between a tractor-trailer and a pedestrian, but whatever its outcome there may be some dispute about who or what caused it. This often leads people to ask the question: "Who is to blame when an 18-wheeler hits a pedestrian in Texas?" Answer: Liability for accidents in Texas,...
What Liability Do 18-Wheelers Have for Accidents in Construction Zones?
18-Wheeler Liability for Accidents in Construction Zones We are all aware that road construction zones cause traffic to be backed up as cars have to bottleneck through one or two lanes. More problematic than this inconvenience, however, are the many additional dangers that grow out of the traffic that comes with construction, especially when large...
What Makes Wrecks Involving Hazardous Cargo in Texas So Complex?
How Accident Cases Involving Hazmat Trucks Work According to the United States Department of Transportation, almost 3 billion tons of hazardous materials are transported in this country annually. These tanker trucks are an important part of commerce in this country, but what happens when they cause accidents and injure drivers? If you have been injured...
What Are Underride Accidents?
How 18-wheeler Underride Accident Cases Work: When a car gets caught under the trailer of an 18-wheeler (or goes through the trailer) that's called an underride accident. These are bad for a number of reasons. These accidents are generally fatal. If the occupant of the vehicle does survive, they are injured severely. Not only that,...
Who Is Responsible for Loading Dock Injuries?
Loading Dock Truck Accidents and the Law In the freight and trucking industry, loading docks can be extremely dangerous places to work, given that giant trucks with equally large blind spots are all coming and going with little time to waste. This kind of rushed, chaotic environment can and often does lead to very, very...
When Is The Trucking Company Liable for Injuries to Passengers?
How Truck Accident Passenger Injury Cases Work - And The Laws Involved Unless authorized to do so by their employer, a truck driver is generally not supposed to allow anyone to ride in the truck who is not also employed by the trucking company and engaged in performing their job duties. If the truck driver...
What Makes Texas Oilfield Truck Accidents So Complex?
Injured by an oilfield truck? Attorney Michael Grossman can help. With growth in the oil and gas industry, the amount of oilfield vehicles on the road has grown exponentially to meet industry demands. The oil and gas industry utilizes various oilfield vehicles, such as, heavy duty service trucks, vacuum trucks and heavy tanker trucks to...
What Should I Do if I Lose a Loved One in a Fatal Truck Accident in Texas?
Fatal Truck Accidents Under Texas Law Every year in Texas, we lose far too many of our loved ones to truck accidents. Men, women, and even children die from negligent truck drivers, truck companies, and any number of other third parties. At this terrible time, we know that you and your family need to grieve....
How Do Commercial Truck and 18-Wheeler Insurance Policies Work?
How Commercial Truck and 18-Wheeler Insurance Policies Work You've just been in an accident with a commercial truck. You have a stack of medical bills. You can't work, the bills keep rolling in, and now you have to fight an insurance company. When the stakes are this high, knowledge is your best weapon. In our...
What Types of Insurance Do Large Trucks Carry?
Types of Insurance Policies That Cover 18-Wheelers and Large Trucks We've already gone over the basic types of truck insurance, now we'll dig a little deeper into each one and introduce you to special types of insurance and circumstances that you may need to be aware of. To recap, the four main insurance types are:...
What Should I Know About Commercial Truck Insurance Companies?
What you should know about the 18-wheeler's insurance company. Most people have some form of insurance, whether it's for their car, boat, apartment, or home. We pay premiums, and we expect that when we need them to cover our losses, insurers will pay. Perhaps you have had a decent experience with an insurance company when...
What Is the Role of the Insurance Adjuster in an 18-Wheeler Case?
The true role of the insurance adjuster is to find a way to pay you less than your claim is worth. Period. If a commercial truck caused your accident, the truck is insured at a minimum of $1 million. The guardian of that money is an employee of the insurance company called the "insurance adjuster."...