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J.B. Hunt is a large trucking company based in Arkansas with trucks and routes all across the country. If you are involved in a truck accident with a J.B. Hunt truck, you might be severely injured. An attorney can help you sue those responsible for the accident, including J.B. Hunt.
If J.B. Hunt employs the truck driver who caused the accident, we may be able to sue the driver and J.B. Hunt for the accident. An employer can be held vicariously liable for injuries caused by employees who were acting in furtherance of their normal duties. If vicarious liability does not apply, there may be ways to hold J.B. Hunt directly liable. For example, an employer may be directly liable for negligent hiring or entrustment if the driver was unfit for the job in the first place.
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Numerous people or entities may be responsible for a truck accident, including trucking companies. Talk to an attorney about how your accident happened, and they should be able to advise you on whether J.B. Hunt should be included in a lawsuit.
If our Indianapolis, IN truck accident lawyers determine that the truck driver directly caused the accident, their employer may be held vicariously liable. When an employee negligently causes injury, and their negligence occurs within the normal scope of their job, their employer may also be held liable in a lawsuit.
This means that if the truck driver in your case is an employee of J.B. Hunt, the trucking company may be included in your lawsuit and held responsible. However, vicarious liability applies only to employees, not to independent contractors.
If J.B. Hunt claims that the truck driver is an independent contractor rather than an employee, we might not be able to sue J.B. Hunt for vicarious liability. However, just because the trucking company says that the driver is an independent contractor does not make it true.
Employees in numerous industries are often misclassified as independent contractors. This is sometimes a mistake, but it may also be done to shield employers from liability if accidents occur. We can request to see copies of J.B. Hunt’s employee records and other business documents to determine whether the driver is truly an employee.
We might not need to sue J.B. Hunt under a theory of vicarious liability if the company is directly responsible for the truck accident. Instead, we might sue them for negligent hiring or entrustment, which is a form of direct liability.
This theory could apply in your case if the truck driver caused the accident because they were unfit for the job, and J.B. Hunt knew this or reasonably should have known this when the company hired the trucker.
Trucking companies often must conduct thorough background checks on potential drivers to ensure they are properly licensed, experienced, and able to drive safely. If J.B. Hunt fails to do this or knowingly hires someone unfit for the job, the company may be held directly liable for an accident.
No lawsuit can succeed without sufficient evidence. The evidence we need, and how we obtain it, will vary from case to case. Below are some common examples of evidence in truck accident cases.
A major source of evidence may be J.B. Hunt's business records. These records may pertain to how the trucker was hired, how long J.B. Hunt had employed them, and whether any safety training was provided before the driver began work.
Since business records are in the hands of J.B. Hunt, we might not be able to see them until we begin the discovery phase. At this phase, the parties must exchange all relevant information and evidence, and we may request copies of business records we believe are relevant to the case.
We should also try to obtain records about the truck itself. If J.B. Hunt owns the truck, which is a strong possibility, they should have records about its maintenance and safety inspections. If these records show that the truck was in a state of disrepair or had not been inspected for a long time, we can argue that the truck was unsafe to drive as a direct result of J.B. Hunt’s negligence.
Many large trucks and 18-wheelers today are equipped with event data records, sometimes called “black box” devices. Most people are familiar with black box devices being on planes, but they are also often on trucks.
These devices may record a whole host of information about what the truck was doing before, during, and after the collision. Data about whether the trucker hit the brakes, their speed, and how long they had been on the road should be recorded.
We may be able to analyze this data to help us understand how the accident occurred and who might be responsible.
Depending on how the accident occurred, you may sue J.B. Hunt for a truck accident. If the negligent truck driver who caused the accident is an employee of J.B. Hunt, the company may be held vicariously liable. Otherwise, there may be ways to hold the company directly liable for the accident.
Generally, an employer may not be held vicariously liable for injuries caused by a negligent independent contractor, only employees. However, the truck driver may be misclassified as an independent contractor. If we learn that J.B. Hunt treats the driver as an employee, we may argue that the rules of vicarious liability should apply in your case.
Maybe. The trucker might not be responsible, but J.B. Hunt still might be under certain conditions. For example, if the accident happened because J.B. Hunt failed to properly maintain or inspect the truck for damage or safety issues, the company may still be held responsible even if the truck driver did nothing negligent.
Yes. Employers often have greater financial resources than individual employees, and you may stand a better chance of getting the full extent of your damages covered if you include J.B. Hunt in your lawsuit.
If you cannot sue J.B. Hunt for whatever reason, your attorney can still help you identify all other possible defendants. This could include the truck driver, other drivers on the road, or even manufacturers of negligent auto parts that contributed to the accident.
Receive a free, private legal review from our Bloomington, IN truck accident lawyers 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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