Personal Injury Law - Trucking Accidents

You Need To Know

Trucking Accidents The injuries from a trucking accident are often massive. In a match between large trucks and cars, cars lose - and their occupants too often pay the ultimate price. For trucking accident victims, the personal and economic burdens can be overwhelming.

Because so many trucking accidents are severe, the government has created guidelines that trucking companies and their drivers must follow. They include:

• Controlling the amount of sleep truckers are required to get.
• Limiting the number of hours truckers can drive daily and weekly.
• Specifying highway following distances between trucks.

Nearly 110,000 men, women and children are killed or injured each year on our highways in crashes with big trucks. Those are just statistics, unless it’s happened to you.  Approximately one out of every for semi-trucks, upon inspection, have been found to be so mechanically deficient, that it is illegal for them to be operating on the roadways, and they are declared out of service. These chilling statistics of injuries, deaths and illegally operating and unsafe semi-trucks are simply unacceptable. Changes must be made in the trucking industry to protect our friends, our families, and the American motoring public.

If you have had a loved one injured or killed in a trucking accident, hiring a trucking accident lawyer is a good way of letting insurance companies know just how serious you are about your trucking accident case. Trucking accidents are complex and require the attention of attorneys with extensive trucking accident experience. If a tragedy like this happens to you or your family, consider contacting Terrell Hogan.

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Verdicts & Settlements

After a two-week trial in Jacksonville, Florida, jury awards $12.9 million in Damages After Ford Failed to Warn About Danger of Riding with Seat Reclined

$750,000.00 Settlement. Multiple leg fractures in highway accident caused by negligent 18-wheel truck driver. (Michael Sharrit)

$1,500,000.00 Settlement. Semi-truck collides with bus causing traumatic brain injuries and orthopedic injuries. (Chris Burns and Mark Calvin)

$500,000.00 Settlement. Accident caused by 18-wheel truck resulting in foot fractures and surgery. (Michael Sharrit)

$750,000.00 Verdict. Back surgery caused by accident involving commercial vehicle. (Michael Sharrit)

$90,000.00 Settlement. Recovery made for couple injured as a result of a truck running them off the road while they were lawfully cycling. (Chris Burns).

Mid-Six-Figure Settlement: Claim against major local trucking company where negligent operation of semi truck caused death of another vehicles driver. (Christopher Burns)

$150,000 Settlement with a nationally known trucking company. Automobile rear-ended by a tractor-trailer causing non-surgical neurological injuries to a staff nurse (Mark Calvin).

$60,000 settlement. Hitchhiking passenger in a semi-semi-tractor that ran a red light causing an accident. Passengers to saint sustained soft tissue injuries with injection therapy (Mark Calvin).

$495,000 Combined Settlement with nationally known trucking company. Husband and wife rearended by a commercial vehicle. Husband, who worked as a truck driver, underwent back surgery. Wife sustained soft tissue injuries (Mark Calvin).

$310,000 Settlement with a nationally known trucking company. Mechanic was pinned against his service vehicle when a running semi, occupied by the defendant truck driver, lurched forward causing significant lower leg fractures and surgeries (Mark Calvin).