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Truck Accident Lawyer Nebraska

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Truck Accident Lawyer Nebraska

When truck accidents occur, the effects can be devastating due to the size and weight of commercial trucks. Many commercial trucks, like tractor trailers, can have up to 18 wheels and a fully loaded large commercial truck can weigh over 80,000 pounds. Compare that to the average 3,500 pound passenger vehicle. This is the main reason injuries sustained in truck accidents are so much more severe than accidents involving only passenger vehicles.

In addition to their size and weight, many commercial trucks carry hazardous cargo, which can spill over onto the roads in an accident and cause illness as well as injury.

Some truck accidents are caused by passenger vehicles

While there are many factors that can contribute to a truck accident, the following are the most common:

  • Passing a truck and then being blown aside by high winds or turbulence from the truck
  • Driving between two trucks
  • Driving in the blind spots behind or beside a truck
  • Failing to speed up or slow down as a truck merges onto the freeway

Truck accidents can also be caused by truck drivers

Although truck drivers are highly skilled and trained in being patient and careful drivers, there are times where truck accidents are caused by the truck driver.

Sometimes drivers are in a hurry due to the unrealistic expectations of their company to meet or exceed impossible timelines. Also, many drivers are offered bonus compensation for meeting these impossible deadlines, which requires the drivers to increase their speed beyond the safe limits.

If you have been involved in a truck accident with a commercial vehicle (like a big rig), you’ll want to contact a truck accident attorney to discuss your options and to file a claim.

To prove your case

In most personal injury cases involving motor vehicle accidents, the main argument is negligence. In order for a case to be won in a truck accident, the injured person must show that the defendant failed to exercise reasonable care and that failure was the direct cause of the injury.

The truck driver is not the only defendant
Something many people are unaware of is that in order to collect compensation for injuries sustained in a truck accident, you’ll want to identify as many potential defendants as possible. This includes the driver of the truck as well as the trucking company, any employers, insurance companies or contractors or anyone else who may be legally obligated to provide compensation in the case of a truck accident.

This is one of the biggest reasons for hiring an attorney to handle your case. An attorney will know the potential defendants which will help you recover damages from another source in the case that one potential defendant is determined to not be at fault.

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Your Questions About The Law

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The short answer is yes, you should care because it’s going to affect the statute of limitations on your claim. It’s important to define what a political subdivision is that way, you know where your claim lies.

A subdivision is city, county, villages, schools, certain administrative agencies. All those are treated under the act differently. Now, if you do sustain an injury or an accident with one of those individuals that I’ve named, then you have one year from the date of your injury to file a written notice, written claim to that subdivision. If you don’t, then your claim is forever barred. Read More

That depends on you, specifically in regards to the length of time it takes for your injuries to improve, how long it takes to get to a point where we can reasonably determine what your future looks like, what additional medical care you require, the cost of such medical care and what permanent restrictions or impairments you have. Read More

The answer to that is almost universally no. The reason for that is the insurance companies like to get in early and offer you a lowball offer in the hopes that they can get you to sign a release of liability waiver. Once that happens, you’re out of luck.

The reason that they send these lowball offers is because you haven’t had a chance yet to properly evaluate your claim. You might still be treating, you might need future medical. There’s also the possibility that you’ve been permanently damaged and you need a doctor to assess that. Read More

Maximum medical improvement or MMI is the point in your injury where you’re about as good as you’re going to get which means you’re not likely to get much better and you’re not likely to get much worse.

It doesn’t mean that you’re all the way better and so for that reason, maximum medical improvement is the point at which your permanent disability benefits are determined. Read More

In order to answer that question, we have to know the specific facts of your case. A lot of factors go into the value of a workers’ compensation case.

First of all, money benefits that are paid to you are based on your wages before the accident. That amount is used then to determine both your temporary disability benefits and your permanent disability benefits. Read More

Yes, it can. In order to modify a child custody order, you have to show what’s called a material change in circumstances.

Now, simply stated what that means is something has to happen. An unanticipated change that if the judge or the parties knew about it when they made the original order, they would have decided differently. Read More

Well, it depends on two things.

First of all, who are you suing and second of all, what are you suing them for? If it’s just general negligence and you’re suing a private person or corporation, it’s four years from the date of accrual of the claim or the date of the accident. Read More

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