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If you were injured in a truck accident that was caused by someone else’s negligence, the losses you experience can be life altering, and your future can hinge on your ability to recover from these losses.
Reaching out for the skilled legal guidance of a well-respected California truck accident lawyer early in the process is one of the most important steps that anyone in your difficult position can take.
Why Consider Feher Law
Deeply rooted in LA, proudly serving all of Southern California, and extending our reach throughout the state, the experienced truck accident attorneys at Feher Law dedicate their impressive practice to helping those injured by truck driver negligence regain their health and well-being through just compensation. Our case results reflect our commitment to our clients – whether through skilled negotiations or experienced litigation – and we encourage you to reach out for more information about why we’re the right firm for you, including:
- Shouldering the Burden of Responsibility – When you work with us, you can rest easy in the knowledge that seasoned legal professionals are skillfully guiding your claim forward, while you tend to the important matter of your recovery.
- Employing Our Impressive Experience – Our California personal injury attorneys boast a wide range of experience that’s reflected in our impressive wins and our standing as one of California’s best truck accident firms.
- Going beyond the Ordinary – At Feher Law, we specialize in claims involving catastrophic injuries, such as traumatic brain injuries, which are closely associated with big rig accidents.
- Prioritizing Your Recovery – If you’ve been injured in a truck accident, your losses are likely to be immense, and we focus on going above and beyond in our fierce advocacy for the compensation you deserve.
- Keeping Your Claim Moving Smoothly Forward – Our goal is resolving your claim as effectively and efficiently as possible, but we don’t shy away from litigation and allowing the court to make important determinations when it’s called for, and we have a wealth of successful cases backing up this claim.
Filing a truck accident claim can be daunting, but the savvy truck accident attorneys at Feher Law are standing by to help lighten your load, bolster your peace of mind, and seamlessly guide your claim toward a favorable resolution that accurately reflects the full range of your physical, financial, and emotional losses.
Your truck accident claim is unique to your unique situation. In response, we take an individualized approach that delivers optimal outcomes, and we encourage you to reach out for a free comprehensive case evaluation today.
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Meet Your California Truck Accident Attorneys
The dedicated California trucking accident lawyers at Feher Law take considerable pride in the trusted legal counsel we provide truck accident victims. If you’re injured in a truck wreck, the legal damages you suffer can be overwhelming, and we hope you take great comfort in knowing that our personal injury lawyers can help.
What Clients Think of Us
While the recognition and accolades we receive as one of California’s top-ranking personal injury law firms are rewarding, there is no more flattering or sincere form of praise than the reviews and recommendations our clients are inspired to write about us. Check them out for yourself, and please keep in mind that we’re also here for you.
How Our California Truck Accident Law Firm Can Help
While car accidents and other kinds of traffic accidents can lead to considerable losses, they rarely compare to the level of loss claimants experience in truck crashes. If you’re the victim of a truck accident that was caused by someone else’s negligence, our practiced truck accident attorneys have the legal skill, resources, and insight to skillfully pursue just compensation in each of the following important categories:
- Your medical bills, which may be open-ended and could include the need for future medical treatments and procedures, assistance with the activities of daily living, and home health care
- Your lost income, which may need to address an inability to return to work or a sharp decline in earning power
- Your physical and emotional pain and suffering, which is categorized as non-economic damages and can easily surpass the other categories of loss you experience combined
Establishing Fault for the Accident
When it comes to truck accidents, there are many different parties that can be held liable.
Truck Drivers
Truck drivers are professional drivers whom the law holds to more careful safety standards than the rest of us face. Further, truck drivers are not immune from engaging in common forms of driver negligence, including:
- Impairment: The law has zero tolerance for when the person behind the wheel carries a commercial driver’s license – such as a truck driver
- Excess speed: Sets the stage for large truck accidents and greatly increases the chance that they’ll be fatal
- Exhaustion: A serious concern for truck drivers who make their livings behind the wheel and who sometimes push the boundaries of safety in their efforts to increase their earning potential
- Failure to follow the rules of the road, which can prove deadly when the vehicle in question weighs in at upwards of 80,000 pounds
- Distraction takes the trucker’s attention away from their primary responsibility of safely navigating the road ahead
- Aggression is especially terrifying when the perpetrator is manning a massive tractor-trailer
While truck driver negligence is closely associated with truck accidents, it’s hardly the only concern.
Trucking Companies
Trucking companies have a dangerous habit of pushing their drivers beyond the limits of hours of service regulations in response to overwhelming demand – and in pursuit of higher profits. Other forms of negligence on the part of trucking companies can extend to all the following:
- Failing to hire truck drivers with the necessary experience
- Failing to keep their fleet well-maintained and in safe working order
- Pushing their drivers to bypass safety rules and regulations as a means of bolstering profits
- Failing to implement and enforce regularly scheduled safety checks and maintenance efforts for every driver on every run
- Failing to employ or use experienced truck mechanics who have the proper tools and truck parts to work with
- Failing to ensure that proper loading techniques are followed for every truck they send out.
Truck Manufacturers
Truck manufacturers can also be held responsible for trucking accidents that are related to the safety of the truck itself and to the safety of the truck parts they manufacture in relation to all the following:
- Design
- Production
- Instructions and warnings
Cities, States, and Municipalities
Depending upon the road involved, the entity responsible for the accident – which can be the city, state, or municipality – can bear liability in the aftermath of a truck accident. Common issues include:
- Poorly designed roads
- Defects in roads
- Inadequate warning signs
- Missing traffic signs, signals, or lights
If you or your loved one is injured in a truck accident, the truck injury attorneys at Feher Law appreciate the magnitude of your losses and are prepared to harness the full force of our experience and legal skill in pursuit of your claim’s best possible resolution.
Common Causes of Truck Accidents
While no two truck accidents are exactly alike, their causes tend to fall into basic categories when truck drivers and companies:
- Fail to check the large blind spots that obscure their vision on all four sides of their rigs before changing lanes.
- Fail to take their increased stopping distances safely into account and, as a result, fail to leave adequate distance between their rigs and forward traffic
- Skirt the rules regarding hours of service, which – too often – the trucking companies that hire them support
- Fail to take the dangerous effects of bad weather or poor road conditions into account in relation to their speed
- Engage in various forms of driver negligence – including exhaustion, distraction, impairment, and aggression – behind the wheel
- Fail to take their size and speed into consideration when taking curves and exits, which can lead to rollovers
- Solely on profits and cut safety corners in the process
Important Initial Advice!
Knowing what to do after a truck accident can be a real challenge, and the fact that every truck accident is specific to the circumstances involved makes it more so. There are, however, several basic steps that every truck accident victim should follow.
1. Seek Immediate Medical Attention
After an accident involving a truck, you should seek immediate medical care. Even if you don’t think you were seriously injured, the immense impact of a truck accident can translate to very serious injuries that may not present with immediate symptoms, and the shock and adrenaline rush you experience can mask a significant amount of pain. Because early diagnosis goes hand in hand with improved prognosis, you shouldn’t wait to see a doctor.
2. Reach Out to Some of the Best California Truck Accident Lawyers Out There
Immediately after a truck accident – and after seeking the medical attention you need – it’s time to discuss your claim with an experienced California truck accident attorney. The outcome of your claim is critical to your recovery and to your future, and this is one step you shouldn’t skip. The benefits of having skilled legal counsel on your side can be difficult to overstate, so don’t wait to reach out.
3. Be Wary of the Insurance Company
The insurance company that is handling your claim is in the business of turning major profits, and toward this end, they have techniques that allow them to settle claims for less than they’re worth, including:
- Offering early, lowball settlement offers that desperate claimants can feel pressured to accept
- Prolonging or overly complicating the claims process to the degree that claimants give up – or accept far less than the amount to which they’re entitled – out of desperation
- Denying truck accident claims outright, which is enough to scare many claimants off
When it comes to the involved insurance company, there are several important points to keep in mind. To begin, you should know that they are very interested in everything you have to say and are very skilled at twisting innocent statements into claim-damaging material.
The insurance rep seeking a statement from you is good at what they do, which is exactly why you should refer them to your lawyer. You’re not required to answer the insurance company’s questions or to make a statement, and unless you’re advised to by your knowledgeable legal counsel, you should refrain from doing so.
Additionally, while you’d rather settle your claim sooner rather than later – you have medical bills piling up, after all – accepting an early settlement offer from the insurance company is very unlikely to adequately cover your losses. It’s your attorney’s job to help you accurately assess the value of your claim and to help you obtain a settlement that reflects that value, and following their advice will help to ensure that you receive just compensation – in support of your fullest recovery.
4. Take a Social Media Holiday
You may wonder why social media has anything to do with your claim, but you should take our word for it, and this points directly back to the insurance company. You can count on them to scour your social media posts in search of anything they can use to potentially harm your claim, and you may be surprised by what they come up with. The bottom line is that they’ve got a lot of experience twisting innocent posts into new meanings that you may never have even considered, and not giving them the opportunity to work their magic is the best policy.
Deadlines
Every state sets a time limit for filing truck accident lawsuits, which is called the statute of limitations, and the California truck accident statute of limitations is a brief two years. If you’re the victim of a truck accident, you need to focus on recovering your physical health and well-being, but at the same time, the claims process is complex and can be long and drawn out. In other words, there’s no time to waste, and retaining a trusted truck accident attorney early in the process is always to your advantage.
Gathering Evidence
The truck accident you were injured in is unique to the involved circumstances, and the involved evidence provides your claim’s infrastructure, which makes collecting evidence at the time of the accident critical. If you were seriously injured and are unable to participate in evidence gathering, you can count on those at the scene of the accident to become involved, and the sooner you contact a California truck accident lawyer, the better protected that evidence will be.
Common forms of evidence that can make or break a truck accident case include:
- Photographic evidence, which can include pictures and videos that were captured during the buildup to the accident, during the accident, and at the scene of the accident as well as relevant dashcam and security camera footage
- Statements made by eyewitnesses and the testimony of experts with relevant professional expertise
- The police report, any tickets issued, and any additional documentation generated
- Accident recreation models that highlight the mechanics of the accident
- Your related medical records and doctor’s report, which help establish the extent of your injuries
- The reports outlining damage to your vehicle and its contents
- The employment and driving record of the involved truck driver – along with the toxicology report and their log book
- Information held by the trucking company, including dispatch records and the details gleaned from their own investigation
- Specific information about the truck itself, including maintenance logs, data recorder readouts, and freight and load manifests
Evidence gathering is a time-sensitive pursuit, which means you need a good lawyer in your corner from the start. Having an accomplished truck accident lawyer in California constructing your strongest claim – while you focus on the recovery process – strikes the right balance and can afford you the peace of mind you’re looking for.
What Can I Expect to Pay?
If you’re involved in a truck crash that’s caused by a negligent trucker, the result of the accident can leave you facing seemingly insurmountable financial losses – on top of the emotional devastation you experience. You’ll be glad to know, however, that most reputable truck accident attorneys in California work on a contingency fee basis.
This means your attorney’s pay will be based on the outcome of your claim. If successful, you’ll owe your attorney a prearranged percentage of your settlement or court award. If, on the other hand, your claim isn’t successful and you receive nothing, you won’t owe anything in legal fees.
Why Choose Us Over Other California Truck Accident Lawyers?
At Feher Law, we stand out from the crowd for all the following important reasons:
- When you need us, we’re there and can be reached by phone around the clock.
- Our commercial truck accident attorneys have excellent experience guiding cases involving truck accidents in California toward resolutions that benefit our clients, including those who’ve suffered catastrophic injuries.
- We share your priorities, and we fine-tune our approach to meet your specific needs.
- We shoulder the responsibility of defending your legal rights, which allows you to focus on your physical and emotional healing.
In the event that the involved insurance company won’t engage in fair negotiations, we’ll be more than ready to take your case to court – where we’ll fiercely advocate for an award that honors the losses and suffering you’ve endured.
Our goal isn’t obtaining the average truck accident settlement in California but is, instead, a settlement amount that authentically reflects everything you’ve endured and must continue to deal with, and our savvy truck accident lawyers in California are well suited to the task.
Other Locations We Serve
Feher Law proudly serves the entire state of California, and the specific cities include but are not limited to the following:
Speak to a California Truck Accident Lawyer Today!
If you or someone you love has been injured in a semi-truck accident, you shouldn’t wait to consult with a dedicated trucking accident attorney in California. At Feher Law, we recognize exactly how serious accidents tend to be, and we’ll leave no stone unturned in our quest to right the wrongs you’ve suffered with a fair settlement or court award that paves the way toward your fullest recovery and brightest future.
You’re not in this alone. Reach out to discuss your case with us and learn more about what we can do to help you on your journey toward recovery today.
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FAQs
How much do accident attorneys charge in California?
Truck accident injuries tend to be serious, which translates to high medical bills and considerable financial losses. While the additional cost of an accident attorney may weigh heavily on you, you should know that most work on contingency, which means you won’t owe anything unless your claim prevails.
How much are most truck accident settlements?
Truck accidents are some of the deadliest on our roadways, and truck accident settlements reflect this fact. In other words, truck accident settlements are generally among the highest personal injury settlements, and they cover the immense physical, financial, and emotional losses that claimants tend to experience.
How long do most accident settlements take?
While some truck accident claims settle relatively quickly, this is generally not a reflection of how well they cover their claimants’ losses. Your formidable California truck accident attorney will skillfully guide your claim effectively and efficiently forward without sacrificing the compensation to which you are entitled.
