Accidents concerning commercial trucks often end in tragedies. In large part it is due to the sheer weight of commercial trucks that can come in at thousands of pounds tons. When the truck is going at a high speed the resulting impact from a collision can do extensive harm to anyone in the truck’s way.

One type of injury that commonly happens is a spinal cord fracture that might lead to paralysis. Attorneys who handle these kind of claims ought to be experienced in the medical and psychological issues of these kinds of injuries and also the complicated liability and insurance challenges that often come up in these cases. For example, look at the following two lawsuits:

In this documented truck accident the victim sustained cervical fractures causing quadriplegia. The accident happened by a driveway in a commercial area. That is where the victim's van was stopped with the victim waiting inside. The van's right turn signal was on. The victim was stopped waiting for a second vehicle to exit the driveway in order to complete a delivery at the site. The victim was working at the time the accident took place That is the point at which a tractor trailer passed the van and went right into the vehicle that was exiting the driveway. The driver of the tractor-trailer was going at least 45 mph. So the impact threw part of the exiting vehicle into oncoming traffic and catapulted the victim's van so that it hit a pole and rolled over. Due to the injuries from the accident, the victim needs assisted care 24 hours a day.

The total price of the victim’s treatment and care were expected to be in the order of $6 million. Additionally, because his injuries left him with a permanent disability he also endured a loss of earning capacity.

The law firm that handled this case for the victim and his wife filed a lawsuit against not only the operator and his employer but also against the company which retained the driver’s employer to transport their product. As a result the law firm published that the lawsuit was resolved without going to trial in the amount of $3,000,000 of which only $1,000,000 came from the driver’s employer and the additional $2,000,000, the larger part of the settlement, came from the company that employed the driver’s employer to deliver their product.

In the second case a mail delivery person was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer after having stopped her vehicle when she arrived at the next delivery stop on her way. The impact was so hard that she was left paralyzed and blind in one eye.

The law firm that represented the victim and her spouse included several defendants in the lawsuit. The defendants included not only in the driver of the tractor-trailer and the owner of the truck, and also the company that had contracted for its services. The law firm determined that he driver of the tractor-trailer possessed a lengthy criminal background. The victim’s medical expenses at the time of settlement amounted to approximately $500,000. The victim had already also incurred roughly fifty thousand dollars in lost wages and had a calculated loss of future wages that amounted to an excess of three hundred thousand dollars. The law firm divulged that a settlement was reached for the woman and her husband for $5,500,000.

These matters underscore the advantages of getting an attorney with the correct experience to recognize the worth of the claims along with identify those who might have liability and have the insurance or the assets needed for an appropriate recovery.