Tyler Truck Accident Lawyer

Regardless if you or a loved one sustained injuries in one of the common causes of a truck accident such as inattention and exhaustion or by a truck driver under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, our Tyler truck accident lawyers may be able to help you recover the compensation you deserve. Through our two decades of experience, we’ve observed most truck accident injury victims have the following questions:

1. What Types of Damages are Available in Truck Accident Cases?
2. Who Can I Hold Responsible For My Injuries?
3. What Do I Need to Win My Case?
4. How / When Should I Communicate With Insurance Adjusters?
5. What Happens in a Truck Accident Lawsuit?

What Types of Damages are Available in Truck Accident Cases?

Damages in truck accident injury cases are generally divided into three categories: physical, emotional, and economic.

Common economic damages in truck accident injury cases include:

• Wages lost when recovering or attempting to recover from injuries sustained;
• Earning capacity lost ; and
• Medical expenses (including hospital, doctor, and therapy bills).

Some of the emotional injuries our attorneys routinely seek for our injury clients include:

• Emotional distress;
• Loss of consortium; and
• Loss of enjoyment of life.

Common physical injuries suffered by injury victims in truck accident cases include:

• Loss of mobility;
• Disfigurement; and
• Pain and suffering.

Finally, additional injuries may be applicable if your loved one suffered fatal injuries in a trucking accident. A small sample of these injuries for which eligible family members may have claims for include:

• Loss of their loved one’s love, support, and advice;
• Loss of benefits enjoyed by virtue of their loved one’s employment; and
• Loss of inheritance.

Who Can I Hold Responsible For My Injuries?

The particular defendants in your case will depend on the facts surrounding the collision in which you or a loved one was injured. However, it’s safe to say that most truck accident injury cases involve the truck driver and their employer.

What Do I Need to Win My Case?

Texas law requires all injury victims to prove four things before they are allowed to hold another party responsible for their injuries. Briefly, these “elements of proof” are:

1. Duty of rig driver to operate rig as proscribed by Texas law and for his employer to provide adequate safety training and to only hire and retain qualified drivers;
2. A breach of that duty;
3. That the breach of a duty described above caused the collision; and
4. As a result of the collision, you’ve sustained damages in the form of economic, physical, and/or emotional damages.

Importantly, injury victims are required to prove these elements “beyond a reasonable doubt,” meaning that a bare assertion of these elements isn’t sufficient. To achieve this goal, you’ll need to present adequate evidence to convince a judge and jury that the defendant was truly responsible For causing your injuries. As much of this evidence is beyond the knowledge of most vehicle operators, the testimony of
expert witnesses is usually essential to achieving a full recovery

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How / When Should I Communicate With Insurance Adjusters?

Simply put, truck accident injury victims should never speak to an insurance adjuster, even their own. As all insurance companies have a vested interest in minimizing claim payments, they’ll do almost everything to ensure you’re not maximally compensated for your injuries. In fact, they’ve trained their adjusters especially for just this purpose! You need a similarly trained and experienced advocate on your side in the form of an truck accident injury attorney.

What Happens in a Truck Accident Lawsuit?

Although no two truck accident injury lawsuits are exactly the same, they all follow a rough chronology, or “timeline.” At a very general level, this timeline is:

1. Contact an experienced Tyler truck accident lawyer (like ours at Grossman Law offices) as soon as possible;
2. Your attorneys will conduct a thorough investigation on your behalf;
3. Your attorneys will communicate with the defendant(s) and their representatives in an attempt to settle your case; and
4. If settlement negotiations are unfruitful, your attorney will pursue compensation on your behalf through traditional legal methods.

Our Tyler Truck Accident Attorneys Can Help You Recover the Compensation You Deserve.

If you or a loved one has been injured as a result of a truck driver or their employer’s negligent or otherwise wrongful behavior, Grossman Law Offices wants you to know that we truly care about you and your family’s needs. In fact, we’ve created this and other articles because we know some victims would like some level of familiarity with Texas’ complex injury laws.

However, these articles aren’t designed to substitute the analysis of the facts of your case by one of our experienced attorneys. Thus, we invite you to give us a toll-free call at 1-855-258-1111 to see how our attorneys may be able to put their two decades of experience to work for you.

Information presented by attorney E. Michael Grossman