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Truck accidents can be severe, and multiple people may be badly hurt. If you are injured, you may face a long road to recovery. Our legal team can help you get financial compensation from those responsible for the accident.
After the accident, you may sue the negligent truck driver, their employer, and possibly other drivers if they contributed to the accident. We must make sure the authorities investigate so we have a better understanding of who caused the accident and evidence to back up your claims. Your damages may be quite substantial, as injuries from truck accidents can be extreme.
Contact our truck accident attorneys for a free, confidential legal review by calling Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
Truck drivers are common culprits in truck accident cases. Even minor instances of negligence behind the wheel can cause a major truck crash. Common examples of trucker negligence include, but are not limited to…
If a truck driver is found directly liable for an accident, their employer, the trucking company, may be held vicariously liable if the driver caused the accident while acting within the normal scope of their job.
Alternatively, the trucking company may be directly liable for negligent hiring or entrustment if the company knew the truck driver was unfit for the job but hired them or allowed them to drive anyway.
Including the trucking company is often necessary to recover the full extent of your damages because individual truckers may be unable to afford everything on their own.
Evidence may differ in each case and largely depends on what is available. Our team can help you investigate and find the evidence you need.
Many trucks are equipped with event data recorders (EDRs) that record a wide assortment of crash data points. Data about speed, when the truck driver hit the brakes, the force of the impact, and more may be available. When an expert reviews and interprets this data, it may shed light on how the crash occurred and whether the truck driver is to blame.
Truck drivers are often required to maintain driver logs. In some cases, these logs are digital, and data may be recorded automatically. This information may reveal how long the truck driver had been on the road before the crash and whether they stopped to rest, as required by federal regulations.
Photos and video footage from the accident scene may show what the scene looked like before authorities cleared it. Your photos and videos may help, and our truck accident lawyers may obtain videos from security cameras installed on the truck, if any.
Truck accidents tend to be quite large, and many other people may be involved. Others may have seen the accident unfold even if they were not involved. We can work to track down as many witnesses as possible and hopefully find people with testimony that can support your claims.
Your medical bills are a major component of your claim for damages, and we must make sure that all possible medical damages are accounted for. Not only must we claim medical costs you have already incurred, but we should also calculate future medical bills you will likely incur as your case moves forward.
In cases of severe injuries, plaintiffs may require many years of medical care after the accident, and these future costs must be included in your claims.
Injuries from truck accidents can be so severe that victims may find it difficult to return to work for a long time. Those with extreme or catastrophic injuries might never be able to return to full-time employment.
We should account for the income you have lost as a result of the accident and the income you would have earned in the future had you not been injured. For some, this may mean many years of lost income and could represent an enormous part of their damages.
Pain and suffering may be substantial after a truck accident. Although these non-economic damages may be challenging to evaluate, they may be worth significant compensation.
We should consider your physical pain, any Mental trauma from the accident, and how your injuries affect your quality of life. In cases of permanent or catastrophic injuries, victims may see a dramatic change in their quality of life and their ability to enjoy their life.
After a truck accident, you can file an insurance claim to hopefully recover compensation. We can begin by notifying your own insurance company of the accident and filing a claim with the truck driver’s insurance. We should also try to file claims with the trucking company’s insurance. An attorney can help you coordinate multiple insurance claims to maximize coverage.
In Indiana, the statute of limitations allows plaintiffs only 2 years to file personal injury lawsuits. In a truck accident case, you have 2 years from the date of the accident. If we do not file the case on time, you might never be able to take your claims to court.
Whether a lawsuit or insurance is the best option depends on your specific claims and what you want from the case. While insurance often pays faster, insurance companies often go to great lengths to pay as little as possible, and you might not get the full extent of your damages covered. A lawsuit may yield greater damages if we win, but it can be time-consuming, and it may take a while before you see any compensation.
Other drivers and passengers may be hurt and seeking their own compensation from the same defendants. If others sue for the same accident, we may be able to coordinate resources, including evidence and testimony, thereby strengthening everyone’s claims.
A class action is unlikely unless a significant number of plaintiffs file lawsuits.
Contact our truck accident attorneys for a free, confidential legal review by calling Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
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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