Have you or a loved on been involved in an accident with an 18-wheeler?
As you are well aware, accidents involving 18-wheelers generally cause
more severe damage and injures than conventional car accidents.
What you may not be aware of is that there are many important and
distinct differences between the 18-wheeler accidents and conventional
car accidents. The biggest mistake that most accident victims make is
trying to approach 18-wheeler accidents the same way as a car accident.
In the legal world, the two are very different.
Did you know: 18-wheelers are usually covered by large commercial
insurance policies which are generally about 50 times more valuable
than that of a normal passenger car.
Did you know: Commercial insurance carriers who insure 18-wheelers have
their own team of defense attorneys on standby at all times. As soon as
an 18-wheeler accident occurs these attorneys are dispatched with the
sole duty of building a case AGAINST YOU. Their job is to find any
legal recourse they can use to protect their insurance policy. They
will aggressively seek out anything they can use to place any amount of
fault on your or anything they can use to diminish the amount of your
case.
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Did you know: The insurance adjusters who are assigned to commercial
vehicle policies are the most aggressive insurance adjusters in the
business. Effectively, these adjusters have been in the industry for
many years and were promoted to such a valuable position because of
their proven abilities to ruthlessly deny claims just like yours.
Did you know: 18-wheelers are subjected to federal regulations as set
forth by the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration. This creates
complex areas of overlap between federal and state laws. Insurance
adjusters routinely take advantage of these technicalities and will
chose to base their decisions state law or federal law depending on
which happens to be more convenient for them. These adjusters routinely
deny claims or assign an unfair portion of blame based on
technicalities that you have probably never even heard of.
Did you know: Most 18-wheeler drivers stake their entire livelihoods on
their ability to earn an income driving a truck. As you can imagine,
this creates a scenario where there is a lot of pressure on them to do
anything they have to protect that livelihood including lying about the
events of the accident. Insurance adjusters routinely deny claims based
solely on the statement of their insured driver.
Did you know: The insurance companies that represent 18-wheeler drivers
usually have an in house team of investigators and accident recreation
experts that are available around the clock. In many of the 18-wheeler
cases our firm has worked, this team of investigators arrives at the
scene before the victim even leaves in an ambulance. This is just
another example of the extreme measures that the commercial insurance
carrier takes to quickly build a case against you.
Did you know: In normal car accidents, it is routine for the accident
victim to exchange information with the defendant and both parties
leave the scene (often by tow truck or ambulance). This is not the case
in an 18-wheeler accident. In just about every Houston 18-wheeler accident injury case our firm has
worked, the 18-wheeler driver was required to stay at the scene of the
accident and await the team of investigators and defense attorneys.
Did you know: By the time you have a chance to read this information,
the 18-wheeler’s insurance carrier has already assigned an aggressive
adjuster, dispatched an investigative team, and has sent an attorney to
the scene with the purpose of building a case against you.
It should be apparent that the level of aggression and legal opposition
that you will face following your 18-wheeler accident will overshadow
and dealings you may have ever had with an insurance company. Without
the help of an experienced Houston attorney, you are at a clear disadvantage.
With so much at stake you cannot afford to oppose a team of
professional investigators, experienced adjusters, the eyewitness
account of the truck driver, and a team of defense attorneys without
having a team of your own.
Our Houston 18-wheeler accident attorneys would like to be that team.
For 20 years, our aggressive an experienced attorneys have made
trucking companies and their commercial insurance carriers pay for the
pain they have caused our clients.