Category: Truck Accidents
It’s always important to start thinking about protecting your rights after a truck accident. Truck accidents often involve large trucking companies and insurance providers that work quickly to protect their interests. If you do not protect yourself, you could end up paying for someone else’s mistakes. Gathering evidence, documenting the…
In many cases, a truck driver who negligently causes an accident is liable for the injuries and other losses that result from the crash. However, trucking companies can share liability as a result of their own contribution to the accident – for instance, by failing to train drivers or monitor…
Truck accident claims are often more complicated than other motor vehicle accident claims. Truck accidents tend to cause catastrophic physical and financial damage. Gathering evidence to support a claim can be far more complex than in a car-on-car collision. The Importance of Preserving Evidence in a Truck Accident Claim Gathering…
Our client was injured in a St. Louis County, Missouri collision when a driver of a commercial vehicle failed to yield and turned right in front of her. The at-fault driver was working at the time of the crash. The crash caused our client to suffer a concussion and a…
Through thorough investigation and negotiating, the Sumner Law Group successfully resolved an injury case against a company operating an Enterprise rental truck. The at-fault driver failed to operate care while driving in the snow. Our client was a passenger in the truck at the time of the crash. Injuries to…
Insurance policy limits stacking is a legal concept where the policy limits of multiple vehicles are stacked together to provide additional coverage. Typically, an insurance policy will provide coverage for one vehicle. There are policies, however, that provide coverage for multiple vehicles within the same policy. Insurance companies try to…
Our client was driving a tractor-trailer on a two lane state highway in Perry County, Missouri when an oncoming semi-truck pulling an empty box trailer was blown over by extremely high winds in the area and crashed head-on into our client. We made a claim for negligence and ultimately filed…
The devastating injuries or loss of a loved one due to a semi-truck accident creates many family stressors, including overwhelming financial burdens. In 2019, several crashes involving semi-truck tractor-trailers in Missouri and Illinois were the result of distracted truck drivers, operators driving too fast for conditions, and preventable load errors…
It doesn’t take a Missouri truck accident lawyer to know that semi-trucks take longer to stop than passenger cars. Accident reconstruction textbooks even include formulas for calculating the stopping distance of a big rig and all of the leading software used by accident reconstruction experts does the same thing. …
Negligent hiring, training and supervision of employees are how an employer is liable for personal injuries of innocent third parties. Over the years, we have handled numerous personal injury cases against companies for the negligence of their employees. The rule is simple, if your employee is negligent and hurts someone,…
