Holding Negligent Truck Drivers And Trucking Companies Accountable

Many car accidents involving large trucks result in catastrophic injuries to people in the car – but not all. Some such accidents result in conventional injuries, which are still serious. These injuries are serious enough to cause people to miss work and incur thousands of dollars in medical bills. They live, and they function, but their injuries constitute a significant setback in their lives.

Our firm was founded by attorney Jeff Pheffer, known across the Los Angeles area as “Mr. Soft-Tissue”. For more than 40 years, we at Pheffer Law have been dedicated to helping our clients pursue compensation in all personal injury cases. For those involving trucks, we know all the complicated ins and outs of the law, which gives us an advantage when aggressively pursuing compensation for our clients.

What Counts As A Truck Accident?

Trucks and commercial vehicles range from the giant tandem trailers on California’s freeways to delivery trucks that pull away from the curb. We have pursued compensation for all types of accidents involving vehicles such as the following:

• Ballast tractors
• Cement trucks, dump trucks and crane trucks
• Garbage trucks and refrigerator trucks
• Semi-trailers/big rigs
• Tanker trucks
• Box trucks/vans
• Platform trucks/flatbeds
• Tow trucks and panel trucks/delivery trucks
• Cab-forward trucks
• Pickup trucks, panel vans and sedan delivery trucks

These trucks have one thing in common: they are on the road to do business. When businesses put commerce above the safety of other people on the road, they must be accountable for their negligence.

The Complications Of Pursuing Compensation After A Truck Accident

When our clients reach out to us, they’ve usually undergone a lot of difficulty getting the help they need for their injuries. And a lot of that trouble is a direct result of the run-around that trucking company representatives give people with every claim. Trucking companies are trying to save money at every turn, which means that whenever a person has a legitimate claim, their teams go into overdrive to make it go away. They will aggressively minimize your injury and imply that your share of the fault makes you largely unable to recover.

The fact is that there are real complications to fault in a truck accident claim, but they are usually on the trucking side of the equation, such as the following:

• Truck drivers who act negligently on the road and do not follow proper procedures when travelling on the highways
• Trucking companies that don’t properly vet or train their drivers to federally mandated levels
• Warehouses that inappropriately fill and weigh trucks beyond their limits, making them more difficult to control
• Companies that perform maintenance on trucks that does not meet the basic standards for safety, making the actual operation of the truck that much more challenging

Of course, none of those complicated conditions is your fault. If you were in an accident with a truck, there is a large likelihood that the fault isn’t on your side of the case. It will all come down to the concept of negligence.

Investigating Semi-Truck Accidents And Delivery Truck Crashes

We are truck accident injury lawyers, and we investigate truck crashes looking for indications of negligence. These include any use of alcohol or drugs on the part of the driver, poorly maintained vehicles, poorly trained or unqualified drivers, exhausting schedules, excessively fast speeds, reckless driving and unbalanced loads. Once we demonstrate that one or more of these conditions occurred, we will be more likely to obtain compensation for your injuries.

Contact Our Firm For A Free Consultation

The injuries you suffered as part of your truck accident don’t have to be massive and life-altering to require medical and legal attention. It is your right to pursue the compensation you deserve for the actions and negligence of someone else. We will help you do that.

Our firm’s history is respected in the area, and we plan to keep helping our clients in Los Angeles for years to come. We’re in this for the long haul for our community. Call us in Los Angeles at 310-909-7801 or send us an email using this online form to schedule your free consultation on the particulars of your accident, your injuries and whether you have a potential case.