Los Angeles, California Truck Accident Lawyers
Win the compensation you deserve and allow the justice system to mete out punishment for negligent truck drivers who caused you a great deal of physical, emotional, and financial suffering. Trust a Los Angeles truck accident lawyer from our esteemed practice, and you’ll have a good chance of securing the insurance benefits you ought to receive.
What to Do After a Truck Accident
Truck accidents can involve semis, tank trucks, box trucks, standard delivery trucks, and heavy equipment attached to a tractor trailer. They could happen because of drivers’ and trucking companies’ oversight.
- Negligent driving (e.g., using a phone or watching a portable monitor while driving)
- Lack of sleep or drowsiness
- Driving under the influence or after using illegal drugs
- Poor truck maintenance
- Lack of training or proper licenses for drivers
Any of these can lead to an accident. If your vehicle becomes involved, and especially if you sustain injuries, you need to gather information that will strengthen your insurance claims or lawsuit.
- Name, contact information, and license of the driver at fault
- The license plate of the truck
- Photographs of the crash, including the damage to your vehicle and your visible injuries
- Video from nearby CCTV cameras or dash cameras from nearby vehicles
It might be difficult, however, to get all these if you need to recuperate from a serious injury. With California’s statutory term for personal injury claims capping off at only two (2) years, delaying might forfeit the compensation you deserve. Best hire a truck accident lawyer in Los Angeles soon after your accident to handle the claims process. Get started by calling LA Car Accident Lawyers.
Plausible Claims
As your truck accident attorneys in Los Angeles, we will handle proceedings that will compensate you for the expenses, losses, and physical and emotional trauma from your accident.
- Medical expenses, including rehabilitation and life care
- Lost wages (e.g., having to stay confined in the hospital)
- Impairment or disability which limits your capacity to make a living
- Property damage
- Insurance bad faith
- Pain and suffering
- Loss of consortium
- Punitive damages
- Wrongful death
California as a Tort State: How Does It Affect Truck Accidents?
California is a fault or tort state. This means you must establish that the truck driver is at fault, whether intentionally or unintentionally, before you can pursue insurance and compensation claims from the driver and the trucking company.
Sometimes, however, you need to be on your toes even if insurers already determined that the truck driver was responsible for the accident. Trucking companies are commercial entities: they will always look out for their interests, and those interests might not always align with yours. They might provide only the minimum benefits or deny culpability for long-term or latent medical treatment.
This is yet another reason to contact LA Car Accident Lawyers. Our Los Angeles truck accident attorneys have years of experience representing plaintiffs in personal injury and class action lawsuits against at-fault truck drivers and operators. We are best qualified to be your personal injury lawyers in California. More importantly, we have a contingency policy so you don’t need to pay legal fees if we fail to win your case.
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