Maison Law of Ceres represents accident victims hurt by the actions of careless truck drivers. We make sure our clients aren’t unfairly blamed for accidents. We also strive to secure more support for victims from truck drivers and trucking companies than they could hope to win for themselves.
Our Truck Accident Lawyers hold reckless drivers liable for the damage and injuries they cause. Contact Maison Law to talk with a real lawyer about your options in a free, no-obligation consultation. You’ll learn what your injury is worth and how to secure the compensation you need to recover.
How Do I Know If I Should Turn My Truck Accident Case Over to a Lawyer?
If you suffer a serious injury in an accident and a truck driver is to blame, you should speak to a Ceres truck accident lawyer about your options. A serious injury, like a broken arm or head trauma, can cause you to build up thousands of dollars in medical bills. These costs often cause unfair insurance adjusters to hunt for ways to avoid accepting blame.
They’ll try to help a truck driver shed blame, maybe blame you, or find a doctor to say your injuries aren’t all that bad. Some truck accidents will be the responsibility of major corporations or a trucking company. These companies might have their own teams of lawyers to help them escape liability.
Your lawyer is your safeguard against these tactics that rob victims of money each year. Your lawyer stands up to massive insurance providers and major transportation businesses on your behalf. Your Maison Law representative gathers evidence to fight back against any unfair accusations and demands the most possible for your injuries.
Truck Accident Dangers on Ceres Roads
Ceres is a central hub for the many farms, orchards, manufacturing plants, and other businesses across the Central Valley. Tanker trucks, produce trucks, and delivery trucks like Amazon’s big blue vans all race across the city on routes like Whitmore Avenue and Highway 99.
Truck drivers pilot massive machines with heavy payloads. It can make it hard to keep their trucks on narrow lanes and to be able to stop at red lights and stop signs. Especially if a truck driver is distracted or reckless.
These and other hazards are what leave so many car and SUV drivers and passengers with major injuries in local truck accidents:
- Distracted Truck Drivers: Delivery drivers depend on their cell phones for work updates and navigation help. This reliance is dangerous when drivers glance down for seconds at a time. Semi-truck tractor-trailer drivers might gaze at a text on a cell phone screen and travel hundreds of feet with their eyes off the road. These are dangerous decisions, no matter how light traffic may appear.
- Excessive Speed: Drivers may be tempted to speed to make their next destination on time. Heavy trucks try to keep up with the cars around them, but stopping can be the real problem. That extra weight increases the space needed to come to a full stop, and speed only reduces the time truck drivers will have to react.
- Tired Truck Drivers: Truck drivers are subject to strict laws about how long they can continuously drive. Unfortunately, drivers can break these rules, and their employers can even pressure them to. An exhausted truck driver or a truck driver using drugs to stay awake can suffer from poor judgment and end up causing a devastating accident.
- DUI Truck Drivers: Truck drivers can choose to climb into their cabs and get behind the wheel while under the influence of a drug or alcohol. That heavy payload becomes a deadly weapon in the hands of an impaired driver.
- Truck Mechanical Issues: A mechanical flaw or a tire defect can result in a dangerous situation, especially as a truck travels the speed limit or beyond. A trucking company may neglect to do routine maintenance on vehicles. That negligence could cause an accident that injures drivers and passengers.
All of these careless and reckless mistakes leave a truck driver, perhaps the driver’s employer, and even a truck manufacturer liable for property damage and injuries that an accident causes. A skilled truck accident attorney fully investigates your accident and the truck driver involved. Your lawyer then makes sure all parties who may be liable in your accident provide fair support for what you’ve had to endure.
Who Can Be Held Responsible for My Stanislaus County Truck Accident?
Some truck drivers are a one-person business. The driver works for themselves. They’ll have commercial truck insurance that applies after accidents. This policy will help victims, but it will usually be a smaller policy and be limited by a cap on compensation.
If an at-fault truck driver works for a bigger company or corporation, it’s usually more helpful for victims to file claims against the business’s insurer.
In reality, there may be many different parties and insurance providers that would have to provide a truck accident settlement check:
- Owner/Operator Truck Driver – Victims may have been struck by local drivers who work for themselves. They may be contract drivers, hauling for different employers each day. They will generally only be covered by their personal truck insurance policy. These smaller policies can leave victims to pay for a bigger part of their recovery bills.
- Local Transport Company — Drivers may be working for a smaller, local delivery or shipping company that provides some insurance. Truck drivers may be driving for a local farm or a packing house. Companies must run full background checks on their potential hires. When they are negligent in this duty, business owners and farm owners may be held liable for accidents. These companies will hopefully cover their employees with a bigger insurance policy.
- Large Corporations and National Distributors – These national and international companies, like large agricultural businesses, may hire and maintain their own fleet of trucks and drivers. They can also rely on national distribution companies that transport goods for many local companies. These businesses are liable for the drivers they hire. They must make sure they are safe drivers and offer safety training to ensure they use safe practices.
- Truck Manufacturer – If there’s a defect with the truck that causes an accident, perhaps there’s been a recall, the manufacturer of the vehicle can also be called upon to provide compensation for their errors in production.
Your Ceres Truck Accident Lawyer goes over your case and identifies every party that bears some of the responsibility for your accident. This way, you can file claims against all at-fault parties and have a better chance of securing support that covers 100% of your recovery.
What Can Earn Compensation After a Truck Accident?
Your lawyer also safeguards your interests by making sure every hardship you’ve suffered is included in an accident claim.
You’ll need to demand that all medical expenses be paid for by the insurance providers involved. You shouldn’t be responsible for a cent of your recovery costs. That includes coverage for every session of physical therapy you’ll need. A permanent disability suffered makes it necessary to estimate the costs of lifelong care and seek long-term support. The travel costs you build-up while seeking the help of specialists and physicians are also recoverable.
The physical pain you endure and the emotional distress you suffer are two non-economic damages that can greatly increase the amount provided on a truck accident settlement check. These traumatic factors are life-altering and should be fully supported.
The wages and benefits you lose while you miss out on valuable work hours are also the insurance company’s responsibility to make up to you.
Contact a Ceres Truck Accident Attorney
Don’t assume you’ll get automatic help after an accident that is clearly the fault of a careless truck driver. Allow a Ceres Truck Accident Lawyer to gather evidence in your case to force a commercial truck insurance company to do the right thing. Contact us to schedule a free, no-obligation case review to find out how to avoid these headaches. You’ll stay informed of how to secure the compensation you’ll need to fully heal and restore your financial security.
And at such a difficult time, you don’t need to worry about finding the money to hire strong legal representation. Maison Law works on a contingency basis for truck collision victims. It means we don’t get paid unless we win the case for our clients. Then our fee is paid out of the money a car insurance company is forced to provide.
