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Any accident on the road is a serious matter, but truck accidents are known to be incredibly dangerous. If you or someone you know survived a truck accident, you could have legal options for significant compensation.
There are many possible causes of truck accidents, and drivers are often caught by surprise when they find themselves in the middle of one. After a truck accident, a lawyer can apprise you of your legal options and hopefully get you compensation for your expenses. A lawsuit may help cover the financial costs of the accident in addition to compensation for your physical pain, diminished enjoyment of life and emotional trauma. It is difficult to know the value of your case unless you are experienced with compensation in these types of cases. Injuries and damages in truck accident lawsuits can be very significant and compensation awards and settlements very substantial in the hands of experienced lawyers.
After surviving a truck accident, you must figure out how to pay for your considerable expenses and obtain the compensation you’re owed. Our Wisconsin truck accident attorneys can help you hold the negligent truck driver liable and make them pay up. For a free case review, call Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166.
Accidents may happen for many reasons, and truck drivers must be very careful on the road. Our Wisconsin truck accident lawyers can help you determine how your accident happened and whether the truck driver can be held liable.
Bad road conditions are common sources of truck accidents. Weather conditions like rain and snow make the roads very dangerous to drive on. Even ordinary cars may hydroplane or hit a patch of black ice. Wisconsin can be very cold and snowy in the winter, and ice on the roads is common. If a truck driver is not careful on bad roads, they can cause a serious accident.
Speeding may lead to severe crashes even when road conditions are relatively safe. Trucks are large and heavy and cannot stop on a dime. If a trucker is speeding and suddenly needs to stop or make a turn, they will likely tip over and cause an accident. Numerous drivers around the truck might be injured or worse.
Trucks are loaded with various safety features and equipment. If the safety equipment fails for some reason, an accident is more likely. For example, underride guards are large bars placed under trucks that prevent cars behind them drive getting wedged under the truck. A car may get crushed underneath the truck if this equipment fails or falls off.
Inattentive driving is one of the leading causes of all accidents across the country, including truck accidents. Even if the roads are safe, nobody is speeding, and all safety equipment is working properly, an inattentive driver might still cause a crash. Cell phones, radios, food, music, and more might distract truck drivers and cause crashes.
After a truck accident, injured victims can file lawsuits to get their damages covered. Medical bills, vehicle repair costs, and lost income from missing work add up to big bills for injured drivers.
One of the most important issues to settle when filing a lawsuit is determining who should be held liable. Generally, the truck driver can be held liable for a truck accident. A trucker may be held liable if we can prove they acted negligently. Not only that, but their employer, the trucking company, can be held vicariously liable for their employee’s negligence.
Negligence comprises four legal elements: duty, breach, causation, and damages. If our Wisconsin truck accident lawyers can establish all four elements, the truck driver may be held liable and made to cover your damages.
Duty refers to the legal duty of care the trucker owed you on the road. All drivers, including truckers, have a duty to drive with reasonable safety under the current circumstances. The second element, breach, is what the truck driver did that violated their duty. For example, speeding, failing to inspect safety equipment, or texting and driving might be considered breaches. Causation is what links the breach to the accident. The breach must be the direct and proximate cause of the accident. Finally, your damages must be real. You cannot claim damages that were possible but not realized.
Many of your damages stem from actual financial costs related to the truck accident. For example, treating your injuries after a crash usually comes with a costly medical bill. People with very severe injuries might require ongoing or indefinite treatment, and they can claim any existing medical costs in addition to future ones.
You must also consider the cost of repairing or replacing your vehicle. Vehicles are important as they help people get around and live their lives. The cost to place your car after an accident may be high, and the truck driver should be made to cover this expense. Our Wisconsin truck accident lawyers can help you calculate your damages and hopefully maximize your compensation.
People injured in truck accidents need time to recover, and many must take time away from work, thus losing precious income. You can claim any wages you have lost because of the accident and future lost wages if you cannot return to work for some time.
Not all damages represent monetary losses. Your physical pain and emotional suffering should also be compensated. Calculating these damages is a bit trickier since there is no price tag. Generally, the more your pain and suffering affect your daily life and ability to function, the greater your damages may be.
No two accidents are alike, and it can be hard to say just how much money a truck accident is worth without talking with you. The value of your case depends on the extent of your damages and a host of other issues. Medical bills and lost wages vary depending on the accident and the case. Injury victims who are more deeply affected by physical pain or emotional suffering may also claim more money in damages.
While these may be the most obvious things impacting the value of your case, there are many other factors. The county you were in when the accident occured, how well your case is prepared, and the attorneys involved in handling the case can also have a substantial impact on case value.
Truck accidents are often worth a lot of money because they involve serious injuries which lead to devastating disruptions in people’s lives. Our Wisconsin truck accident lawyers can help you determine how much your case is worth and add up your damages.
If you were injured in a truck accident, our Wisconsin truck accident lawyers can help you hold the truck driver accountable. Call Wruck Paupore at (219) 322-1166 for a free case review.
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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