Maison Law helps victims struck by truck drivers in Tracy, CA, and across Stanislaus County. We make sure truck drivers and their employers are held fully responsible for all recovery costs, including all medical bills and lost income, that a frightening accident can cause.
If you have been injured, please get in touch with A Tracy Personal Injury Lawyer for a free case consultation. It’s an easy, no-obligation way to get your questions answered and find out what you should be compensated for.
Let’s Determine If You Need a Lawyer for Your Case
If you come away from a truck accident with very minor bumps and bruises, or just a crumpled car, you may be okay handling your claim yourself.
You always have the right to handle any claim yourself, but if your accident leaves you with serious injuries, a lawyer can be a necessary safeguard for your case. A serious injury in a frightening collision might involve a bone fracture, a brain injury, or a neck or back injury. These cases bring higher medical bills, and that makes insurers fight harder to avoid blame.
Trucking companies can also afford teams of lawyers to poke holes in your case to the point they might justify offering a big zero for your suffering.
A Tracy truck accident lawyer can help you fight back by taking these actions and others:
- Maison Law fully investigates your accident, the truck driver’s past, and the employer’s safety record.
- Gathers all evidence to back a strong case.
- Fights back if an insurer tries to blame you for a collision.
- Gathers your medical charts and works with your doctors to prevent insurers from claiming your injuries aren’t all that bad.
- Files your claim and handles the frustrating negotiation process, allowing you to focus on getting better.
- Makes sure a settlement offer covers your needs now and in the future.
- If a settlement offer is too small, your lawyer rejects it and demands more.
- If an insurance company won’t accept full blame for what happened, your lawyer is prepared to file a lawsuit and take the company or corporation to court.
Maison Law has experience in standing up to big businesses and insurance companies to get our clients the help they need. Our lawyers can often win much more in compensation than you could by taking on a trucking company yourself.
Schedule a Free Consultation with a Real Truck Accident Attorney
Figuring out if you have a case or not, and if an insurer should be supporting you, can be difficult. If you still have questions, there’s a great way to find answers without any risk.
Maison Law offers a free, confidential case review with no obligation. It’s available to all San Joaquin County accident victims and their families. Let’s go over what happened to you and who should be held responsible.
We recommend you avoid talking to a trucking company’s insurers or lawyers until you’ve spoken to Maison Law. But if you’ve already been involved in settlement talks and realized an insurer isn’t going to offer you anywhere close to what you require to recover, there’s still plenty of time for Maison Law to help. As long as you haven’t signed off on a settlement, our skilled attorneys can fight back and demand more.
Finding Out What Your Truck Accident Case Is Worth
With the semi-trucks, produce trucks, and heavy delivery vans involved in these frequent accidents, victims often need support for many intense hardships.
The total on a truck accident settlement check would be determined in large part by how severe an injury turned out to be and how long expensive care had to continue. The severity of the injury also determines how long victims must be away from work and how many paychecks they miss. This loss must be fully compensated.
The changes an injury causes to the victim’s life also play a part in the settlement that must be demanded.
A skilled attorney would be focused on earning these benefits and others for victims and their families.
- The totals on the victim’s doctor bills and the cost of care expected in the future.
- All costs are anticipated when victims must learn to live with a permanent physical disability. Lifelong support from an insurance provider.
- Support for the victim’s emotional distress, such as depression and anxiety, while they manage a difficult and painful recovery. The loss of enjoyment as you must give up hobbies and sit out family activities.
- Support to help afford care for PTSD symptoms that may haunt victims and constantly cause them to flash back to the moment of impact.
- Support for the pain victims endure and may continue to experience.
- Lost wages and benefits while victims are unable to work.
- Money for vehicle repairs or a new vehicle.
The Businesses Responsible for Your Trucking Accident
A truck accident could play out very differently from a normal car vs. car collision. Truck drivers can make mistakes that cause powerful impacts. They are responsible for their actions, but they also represent companies and corporations. Shouldn’t those businesses also bear some of the blame? It’s their business model that sent the driver out on the road.
The answer is yes, in many cases. But it can be complex and confusing. It’s why, after a serious accident, it’s best to let an experienced attorney figure out who is liable. In some cases, you may be able to draw support from several insurance companies.
Here’s a breakdown of who may be liable for your accident with a truck:
The Truck Driver: The truck driver may be the person you expect to be financially responsible for your accident. That may be true if the driver works for themselves. They may be what’s known as an owner/operator and would have to carry their own commercial truck accident policy. Their coverage may be the bare minimum drivers are allowed to carry, and it’s often more beneficial to hold a company or corporation responsible if possible.
Trucking Companies: A local company may hire its drivers out to help local businesses ship their goods. These trucking companies must carry insurance for their full-time drivers. They are also responsible for the proper maintenance of trucks to keep them in safe operating condition. Businesses can be liable for accidents caused by worn tires or brake pads.
Companies or Corporations: Many truck drivers are on the road hauling or delivering for a business. It may be a manufacturing plant or a corporation like Amazon that has its own shipping network. It may be a grocery store like Safeway sending its drivers out to supply local stores. These businesses often cover their full-time drivers with up to $1 million in accident insurance. The downside is that many of these larger businesses have corporate lawyers who get involved, making it much harder for victims to earn support, especially if they don’t have a legal representative to protect them. They can also be responsible for the actions of cargo loaders at shipping docks who might load a truck and leave it unbalanced to cause an accident later.
Farms and Agricultural Companies: Central California is a rich area for farms and orchards. Tracy can be a crossroads for big rigs from packing plants, canneries, and produce trucks coming from farms. Farm owners and factory owners can be liable for crashes.
Truck and Parts Makers: A manufacturer could be held liable for a truck accident if there was faulty or defective equipment used in the assembly of a truck, and it led to the accident.
Contact a Tracy Truck Accident Attorney
Major trucking and shipping companies might provide good coverage for their drivers, but they’ll also have the legal resources to contest any claim you make. It’s important to have a lawyer on your side to even the playing field.
If you’ve been seriously hurt in an accident, take advantage of a free case review with a real lawyer at Maison Law. This evaluation comes with no obligation to you or your family. Find out what your injury is worth and how to make insurance companies pay what’s fair.
If you need Maison Law’s help, we are there, but you don’t have to worry about finding the money to pay a lawyer. We work on a contingency basis. It means we don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then, our fee comes out of the settlement check that an insurance company must write for you.
