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In the aftermath of a truck accident, make your first call to 911. Make your second call to an experienced law firm.
Our lawyers work to help you by collecting evidence, building a case, and taking it to the responsible drivers, trucking companies, and their insurance companies. Getting full damages for a serious truck crash often means fighting the case in court, and our lawyers can do that for you.
Call Wruck Paupore’s truck accident lawyers today at (219) 322-1166 for a free case review.
When a driver causes a crash, they are usually included in the lawsuit. However, an individual truck driver might not have the funds to pay for a high-dollar truck accident case.
Nonetheless, you can sue them directly, and their insurance can cover their damages up to policy limits. If they did not work for a trucking company, i.e., they were independent drivers, then your case stops with them.
In many cases, you can sue the trucking company they were working for at the time of the crash.
A trucking company that contributes to a crash through its own negligence can be partially responsible for the accident. Many trucking accidents are caused by these kinds of issues:
Trucking companies can also be responsible for what their drivers do on the road. If the driver was an employee and they caused the crash while working within the scope of their employment, their employer can be held responsible.
This makes the trucking company liable in place of the driver, allowing us to sue them for whatever damages the trucker caused. Trucking companies often have a better ability to pay full damages than an individual driver.
In many cases, these rules result in a lawsuit against the trucking company and the driver, together. In some cases, the driver might not be liable at all, and they might be just as much a victim as you are, so suing them would not be necessary to hold the trucking company liable.
Alternatively, there might be no “employer” company to sue at all if the driver was an independent contractor instead of an employee.
Yes. Other drivers could share fault in causing a crash. They might even be fully responsible, with the trucker also being a victim. You can sue them for their full share of damages.
You may also have a case against truck manufacturers or truck mechanics (though mechanics often work for the trucking company, too).
Our truck accident lawyers typically look for these damages in a truck accident case:
You should be entitled to full compensation for any medical expenses you need to pay to cover your accident. This is often one of the biggest areas of damages in your case.
If you cannot work or will miss work going forward because of your injuries or new disability from the crash, they should pay for that as well. Those damages can be vital to you and your family going forward.
Other costs, such as vehicle repairs, should also be compensated. As long as we can tie the cost to the crash, it should be covered as part of your case.
Lastly, there are damages that have no cost to them. You can seek monetary damages for these intangible harms, such as pain, suffering, emotional distress, and more.
In Indiana, we use an at-fault insurance system. This means you typically go after the other driver’s insurance for coverage – i.e., the trucker and trucking company’s insurance. That being said, you might have optional coverages on your policy that can help in these areas:
Using this insurance usually requires paying a deductible and gives your insurance the ability to claim these amounts back from your ultimate winnings.
The other driver and the trucking company should pay full damages through their insurance. This includes medical bills, lost wages, other economic damages, and even non-economic damages.
Their insurance typically pays only up to its policy limit, but this should be quite high for commercial vehicles. Trucking companies may be required to pay any remainder out of pocket.
You should report the crash to the police as soon as you can after the accident, and they will write up a report. However, you do not need to seek this report on your own; we can obtain a copy for you as part of the investigation into your case.
Immediately after the crash…
Indiana law gives you 2 years to sue for truck accident injuries in most cases.
No. Do not try to file an insurance claim or discuss the case with insurance on your own. Let our lawyers handle it for you.
When you sue a person or company that has insurance, their insurance pays in their place. Trucking companies typically have very high insurance caps, meaning the insurance company should be able to pay most of the damages.
If they cannot, you may be able to have the insurance company pay the remaining damages out of pocket.
Call (219) 322-1166 for a free case review with the truck accident lawyers at Wruck Paupore.
In the aftermath of a truck accident, make your first call to 911. Make your second call to an experienced law firm.
Our lawyers work to help you by collecting evidence, building a case, and taking it to the responsible drivers, trucking companies, and their insurance companies. Getting full damages for a serious truck crash often means fighting the case in court, and our lawyers can do that for you.
Call Wruck Paupore’s truck accident lawyers today at (219) 322-1166 for a free case review.
When a driver causes a crash, they are usually included in the lawsuit. However, an individual truck driver might not have the funds to pay for a high-dollar truck accident case.
Nonetheless, you can sue them directly, and their insurance can cover their damages up to policy limits. If they did not work for a trucking company, i.e., they were independent drivers, then your case stops with them.
In many cases, you can sue the trucking company they were working for at the time of the crash.
A trucking company that contributes to a crash through its own negligence can be partially responsible for the accident. Many trucking accidents are caused by these kinds of issues:
Trucking companies can also be responsible for what their drivers do on the road. If the driver was an employee and they caused the crash while working within the scope of their employment, their employer can be held responsible.
This makes the trucking company liable in place of the driver, allowing us to sue them for whatever damages the trucker caused. Trucking companies often have a better ability to pay full damages than an individual driver.
In many cases, these rules result in a lawsuit against the trucking company and the driver, together. In some cases, the driver might not be liable at all, and they might be just as much a victim as you are, so suing them would not be necessary to hold the trucking company liable.
Alternatively, there might be no “employer” company to sue at all if the driver was an independent contractor instead of an employee.
Yes. Other drivers could share fault in causing a crash. They might even be fully responsible, with the trucker also being a victim. You can sue them for their full share of damages.
You may also have a case against truck manufacturers or truck mechanics (though mechanics often work for the trucking company, too).
Our truck accident lawyers typically look for these damages in a truck accident case:
You should be entitled to full compensation for any medical expenses you need to pay to cover your accident. This is often one of the biggest areas of damages in your case.
If you cannot work or will miss work going forward because of your injuries or new disability from the crash, they should pay for that as well. Those damages can be vital to you and your family going forward.
Other costs, such as vehicle repairs, should also be compensated. As long as we can tie the cost to the crash, it should be covered as part of your case.
Lastly, there are damages that have no cost to them. You can seek monetary damages for these intangible harms, such as pain, suffering, emotional distress, and more.
In Indiana, we use an at-fault insurance system. This means you typically go after the other driver’s insurance for coverage – i.e., the trucker and trucking company’s insurance. That being said, you might have optional coverages on your policy that can help in these areas:
Using this insurance usually requires paying a deductible and gives your insurance the ability to claim these amounts back from your ultimate winnings.
The other driver and the trucking company should pay full damages through their insurance. This includes medical bills, lost wages, other economic damages, and even non-economic damages.
Their insurance typically pays only up to its policy limit, but this should be quite high for commercial vehicles. Trucking companies may be required to pay any remainder out of pocket.
You should report the crash to the police as soon as you can after the accident, and they will write up a report. However, you do not need to seek this report on your own; we can obtain a copy for you as part of the investigation into your case.
Immediately after the crash…
Indiana law gives you 2 years to sue for truck accident injuries in most cases.
No. Do not try to file an insurance claim or discuss the case with insurance on your own. Let our lawyers handle it for you.
When you sue a person or company that has insurance, their insurance pays in their place. Trucking companies typically have very high insurance caps, meaning the insurance company should be able to pay most of the damages.
If they cannot, you may be able to have the insurance company pay the remaining damages out of pocket.
Call (219) 322-1166 for a free case review with the truck accident lawyers at Wruck Paupore.
Don is a founding partner and one of the nation’s top-ranked personal injury litigators. He is a member of the Multi-million Dollar Advocates Forum, which includes less than 1% of the nation’s trial lawyers, and awarded the highest ranking given by Martindale Hubbel and AVVO.
More importantly, Don understands representing personal injury victims is about more than recovering the best settlement: it’s about helping clients get back on their feet and supporting them in every aspect of their recovery.
In nearly all cases, our clients seek compensation from the wrongdoer’s insurance company. Before forming Wruck Paupore, Jason worked for a prominent law firm representing some of the world’s largest insurers. This experience gives Jason a deep understanding of the insurance industry and the strategies it uses to pay injury victims as little as possible.
Jason -- and our entire team -- put this inside knowledge to work to force insurance companies to pay what is actually owed. Often, we use the insurance company’s own tactics against them as we fight for the full compensation our client deserves.
For more than four decades, Keith has been fighting for injury victims. During that time, he’s watched the insurance industry change, with insurers now more interested in protecting their stock price than treating injury victims fairly.
Since the beginning, Keith has put people first. From his childhood in Gary, Indiana during the 1960’s and working his way through law school, Keith has risen to become one of the Midwest’s most respected trial lawyers. He has never forgotten that being a lawyer is about helping people -- and seeing injury victims through struggles in a way that could change their lives forever.
Over the decades, Keith, Don and Jason have fought relentlessly for clients, even when other lawyers have said the case was impossible to win.
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Dyer, IN 46311
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