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  1. Proving Negligence Caused Your Truck Wreck
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  3. Pursuing Monetary Damages for Injuries Sustained in Truck Accidents
  4. Contact a Personal Injury Attorney to Protect Your Rights Today
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Your personal injury lawyer can help you calculate your recoverable damages, which may include:

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Erath Truck Accident Lawyer

After being injured in a truck accident, you should not have to deal with the claims adjuster for the trucking company or driver on your own. You should be able to concentrate on getting better. When you work with an experienced Erath truck accident lawyer, you can focus on rebuilding your life while we take care of everything else.

You can call Laborde Earles Injury Lawyers today at (337) 777-7777 to get a free consultation. We can evaluate your case at no cost to you. There is no obligation.

Proving Negligence Caused Your Truck Wreck

We have to prove all four of these elements of liability to hold someone accountable for the harm you suffered in an accident with a commercial truck:

  • Duty of care. Everyone who operates a motor vehicle on public streets has a legal obligation to drive with caution and obey the traffic laws.
  • Breach of the duty of care. Failing to live up to the standard of a legal duty of care is negligence. If a truck driver operated his vehicle on the highway after consuming enough alcohol to put his blood alcohol level over the statutory limit, he would be negligent.
  • Causation. The careless act must be the thing that causes the accident. The above truck driver could have crashed into your car because his reflexes were too slow to react to the flow of traffic.
  • Measurable losses. The negligence that caused the collision must lead to quantifiable damages. If someone got physically injured in the wreck, the facts satisfy the requirement of measurable losses.

Once we establish all four factors of liability, we can go after the at-fault party for your personal injury damages.

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Insurance Company Tactics Used to Avoid Paying Personal Injury Compensation

Insurance adjusters love to deal with injured people who do not have injury attorneys. You are unlikely to know your legal rights about getting compensation for your personal injuries. The adjusters can use all sorts of tricks to deny your claim or pay you less money than you deserve. Here are some of the strategies that insurers use in these cases:

Pressuring You to Settle Quickly

You might not have all your medical bills yet when the adjuster offers you a quick check to settle your claim. You must pay all of your medical bills out of that check, so there might not be anything left for you afterward. Additionally, until you heal completely, you do not know if you will need additional procedures, like surgery, that you would have to pay for yourself.

Blaming You for the Truck Crash

Some adjusters even bully injured people by accusing them of causing the accident. Instead of paying you a fair settlement, they say that you will have to pay the other person’s losses. In situations like these, you may choose to retain a personal injury lawyer to look out for your interests.

“Good Cop, Bad Cop”

The adjuster might pretend to be your friend while blaming unfavorable decisions on their supervisor. At the end of the day, you could receive an unfair result.

You do not have to face this kind of conduct on your own. With a personal injury attorney handling your accident injury claim, you can get to rest and focus on getting better. At Laborde Earles Injury Lawyers, we negotiate directly with the insurance company so that you do not have to do so.

You can call us today at (337) 777-7777 for a free case evaluation with an Erath truck accident lawyer. There is no obligation.

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Pursuing Monetary Damages for Injuries Sustained in Truck Accidents

Every personal injury case is different. We cannot determine how much your claim might be worth until we talk to you and investigate your situation.

Some of the damages our injury lawyers have won for our clients include:

Medical Expenses

You can go after the reasonable cost of medical treatment you needed for your accident injuries. This category can include the ambulance, emergency room, hospital, doctors, x-rays, lab tests, diagnostic procedures, prescription drugs, surgery, and physical therapy.

Lost Wages

People often miss time from work after getting hurt in a truck crash. If you did not get paid for all the time that you missed, we can add that amount to your personal injury claim. This category can include wages, salary, self-employment, and other regular forms of income.

A Specialized Treatment Center

After a catastrophic injury, like spinal cord damage, you might have to go to a medical facility that provides special treatments. These centers are expensive, and the bills can become astronomical.

Diminished Earning Capacity

When you returned to work, you might have had to work fewer hours or work a lower-paying, less demanding job for a while—overall losing income due to their personal injuries. Some people can never return to their previous earning capacity.

Long-Term Care

Truck accidents can cause devastating harm, like a traumatic brain injury that leaves a patient in a coma. This person will need round-the-clock care at a skilled facility.

Disability

Some people sustain such debilitating harm that they can no longer support themselves through gainful employment.

Pain and Suffering

We may be able to pursue damages for the physical discomfort and emotional distress you endured because of your injuries.

Other Non-Economic Losses

Sometimes people experience other non-economic damages, like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), particularly after a wreck that involved horrific or fatal injuries.

Wrongful Death

If your loved one died from injuries sustained in an accident with a truck, we can help the legal beneficiaries pursue additional compensation for their losses from the wrongful death.

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Contact a Personal Injury Attorney to Protect Your Rights Today

If you suffered injuries in a truck accident, you do not have to fight this battle alone. Let an experienced personal injury attorney take care of your claim so that you can rebuild your life.

The team at Laborde Earles Injury Lawyers help people who suffer severe injuries because of the carelessness of others. You can call us today at (337) 777-7777 to get started. The initial consultation is at no cost to you.

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