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Large trucks and 18-wheelers are so large, heavy, and fast that they can be difficult to avoid in case of an accident. Such accidents are often severe, and you might have catastrophic injuries. Our legal team is here and ready to help you get fair financial compensation for the accident.
Following a truck accident, you should call 911 and get emergency help as quickly as possible. If possible, document the scene by taking photos, recording videos, and speaking to others involved in the crash. We may need them later to provide information and testimony for a lawsuit. After you have received treatment and feel a bit better, contact a lawyer to discuss your case. Act fast, as your time to sue after a truck accident is limited.
Receive a free, private case analysis from our truck accident attorneys by calling Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
A truck accident may constitute a serious emergency. Your top priority should be to call for help. If you can, gather information you can use later to claim compensation.
Call 911 immediately. If you do not have a phone or are too badly injured to make the call, someone else at the accident scene should call 911 for you. Multiple other drivers are likely involved, and someone probably has a phone and will call 911 right away.
If you can, and only if it is safe to do so, you may exit your vehicle and start collecting information about the accident. Exchange information with the truck driver and any other drivers involved in the accident. If you have a camera, take pictures and record videos of the accident scene. All this information may help you and your attorney build a strong claim for damages later.
As soon as you are able, call a lawyer for help. The trucking company may already be doing damage control over the accident, and you need a lawyer who can stand up for you and demand compensation. You may be in bad shape, but this call is important. If necessary, a friend or family member should call a lawyer on your behalf.
You might already have some evidence to build your case. For example, if you stopped to take any photos or record videos of the accident, those recordings may be entered into evidence if they shed light on how the accident occurred.
Your testimony may also be crucial. As someone directly involved in the accident, you have first-hand knowledge about what happened, and you can testify about what you saw.
Your records may reveal how much treatment has cost and may continue to cost as time goes on. Your records may also indicate your overall prognosis. What is your maximum medical improvement? Are you expected to fully recover eventually, or will you never fully heal from your injuries? Your records may indicate whether you will live with long-term complications and how those complications may affect your day-to-day life. We likely need a medical expert to review and explain your medical records in court.
The defendant may have much more evidence under their control, and our truck accident lawyers can obtain it during the discovery phase of the trial.
We may request to see data from the truck’s event data recorder, which records various information about the crash. We should also request copies of driver logs. These may be maintained by the driver and should indicate how long the trucker had been on the road and whether they stopped to rest.
The truck might also be equipped with security cameras, and we can demand to review any videos.
When filing your case, we need to determine how the truck driver caused the accident. Accidents may happen because of various factors related to trucker negligence, such as…
The truck driver might not be able to afford all your damages, and we should include their employer, the trucking company, so that you are more likely to get the full extent of your damages.
When an employee negligently causes injuries while acting in the regular scope of their employment, their employer may be held vicariously liable for damages. Truck accidents typically occur while truckers are performing their normal job duties, so the trucking company may be held vicariously liable.
You may also be able to argue that the trucking company should be held directly liable for negligent hiring or entrustment. If the company knew a trucker was unfit for the job yet hired them anyway, or allowed the trucker to drive even though they were incapacitated, the company may be directly liable for the crash.
Per se negligence is a legal principle stating that a defendant may be found to have breached their legal duty of care by virtue of violating a safety-related regulation or law. For example, federal regulations prevent truck drivers from driving more than 8 hours without a rest. If driving logs show that the truck driver in your case was driving beyond federally regulated hours when the crash happened, we can argue per se negligence, and we may not need much more evidence to prove fault.
Your claims are unique to your case, and the exact value of your damages will depend on many different factors, including, but not limited to…
Under Indiana law, uninsured drivers “with a previous violation” may not sue for non-economic damages after an accident. A previous violation includes any time in the past 5 years when the driver was required to prove they had insurance but failed to do so. If you are uninsured, you may be able to recover economic damages from the at-fault truck driver, but not much else.
Receive a free, private case analysis from our truck accident attorneys 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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