Maison Law represents victims hurt in accidents involving large trucks caused by drivers from Merced-area farms and packing plants. We make sure owners and corporations are held responsible and forced to support victims until they’ve completely recovered.
Please contact our Merced truck accident lawyers for a free case consultation. It’s an easy, no-obligation way to get your questions about your potential case answered. You should be aware of what your injuries are worth before an insurance company tries to get you to accept far less.
How to Tell If You Could Take Home More with a Lawyer’s Help
If your collision is caused by a truck driver from a local agricultural business, and your injuries are serious, it’s a good idea to speak to a lawyer about your next steps.
A case involving a serious injury will come with higher bills and instantly become a high-value case. This means stronger resistance from insurers. A skilled attorney can protect that case from insurance tactics meant to reduce the support you receive to deal with a serious injury. Your lawyer is also a multiplier for your settlement check and can often secure much more in support than you could filing on your own.
Your Maison Law representative would fully investigate your accident, even calling in accident reconstruction teams if a truck driver denies fault. This keeps insurers from trying to shift blame in the accident. Your lawyer would then work to earn the maximum in support for you, covering every day, week, or month you are down with an injury.
Anyone can file their own injury claim, but a lawyer is often a valuable protection for patients dealing with serious injuries like bone fractures, neck and back injuries, ligament and tendon tears, or a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
Schedule a Free Consultation with a Real Merced Farm Truck Accident Attorney
You may still be wondering if your case is worth pursuing. If you have questions, there’s an easy way to get answers from an experienced professional.
Maison Law offers a free, confidential case review with no obligation. It’s available to all Merced County accident victims and their families. Find out who should be responsible for your accident with a farm, orchard, or ranch truck, and what those businesses need to be contributing to your recovery.
Earning Support After a Collision with a Produce Truck or Semi-Truck
Merced County is a crossroads for the agricultural industry. Farms in Merced and across the Central Valley send out large trucks full of important goods like pistachios and figs. Poultry trucks are a common sight on Highway 99 and Highway 140.
The professional drivers behind the wheel mostly try to keep themselves and everyone else safe. But truck drivers can get careless and reckless, and that’s a dangerous course when they haul so much weight in such big vehicles. It’s harder to slow these machines down, and impacts carry so much more force.
Victims can suffer major injuries and life-threatening harm. Patients may wake up at Merced Medical Center and not be able to worry about the cost of their care for a while. But eventually those hospital bills will come due. And while hurting victims can’t go into work to earn a paycheck, they have little chance of paying down such debt.
It’s why the level of support that negligent truck drivers and farm owners should provide is so important.
A skilled attorney would demand these benefits and more for victims and make sure they were provided in a timely manner:
- Assistance with all of their current medical bills and those expected in the future.
- Lifelong support for a truck accident victim left with a permanent physical disability.
- Support for the physical pain victims must endure, and the emotional trauma of a scary collision with a large van or big rig.
- Replacement of the paychecks and job benefits that victims forfeit while they can’t make work shifts. Potential help to find a new career if a serious injury forces a victim out of their previous career.
- Help with car repair or replacement costs.
- Support for families after a fatal produce truck accident.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is responsible for an accident involving a farm truck?
In some cases, a produce truck driver works for themselves, and they’d have a personal commercial truck accident policy for victims to draw from. But if the truck driver drove for a farm, a company, or a corporation, the victim would usually have access to a larger policy provided by the employer. That would often mean more money for the victim’s recovery. The orchard, agricultural business, ranch, or factory owner who hired the truck driver and sent the driver out on the road would be responsible.
Can I wait a while to file a truck accident injury claim?
Victims hurt in truck accidents have up to two years from the date of the accident to file a claim. However, waiting months or years to begin building your case can make the odds of success much lower. Evidence can disappear, surveillance video can get erased, and witnesses can become harder to track down. It’s best to turn your case over to a Merced County lawyer as soon as possible.
What if I can’t afford to pay a farm truck accident lawyer?
Frightening accidents caused by farm trucks can leave victims physically and financially devastated. It’s the worst time to have additional bills to pay. It’s why Maison Law works on a contingency basis. It means we receive no payment up front. We are only paid if we win the case. Then our fee would be covered by the settlement check that a truck accident insurance company would have to pay.
Contact a Merced Farm Truck Accident Attorney
For victims who have suffered serious injuries in accidents caused by farm truck drivers, it’s a good idea to consider the protection of a lawyer. It’s easier for big insurance companies to shortchange victims and even reject their claims when they don’t have legal representation to even the playing field during settlement negotiations.
Contact us to set up a meeting with a real lawyer to go over your options. Let us make sure you are being treated fairly and getting everything you’ll require to rebuild your life and your health.
