Hit by a semi or commercial truck? Your case is not a regular car wreck. Federal regulations, electronic driver logs, mandatory $1 million commercial policies, and multiple corporate defendants all change the math. We know where to dig and which records the trucking company is hoping you never see. Our personal injury attorneys handle trucking cases statewide on contingency.
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Our personal injury law firm has a proven track record of securing victories for clients who have been wrongfully injured. We have the experience and resources to handle a wide range of complex cases, including.
Driver fatigue, distraction, or following too close, combined with 80,000 pounds of mass, equals catastrophic rear impact. Underride crashes: where a passenger car slides under the trailer: are often fatal or cause severe head and neck trauma. Federal underride guard standards exist (49 CFR 393.86) but enforcement is weak. We pursue rear-impact guard violations and trailer conspicuity tape failures.
Driver error, brake failure, or excessive speed on curves usually drive these crashes. We pull the ECM data showing speed and braking inputs in the seconds before the wreck. Rollovers also raise cargo-securement and load-distribution claims under 49 CFR 393 Subpart I.
Trucks needing to swing left to make a right turn often clip vehicles, cyclists, or pedestrians in the right lane. The trucker is at fault unless they signaled adequately and the other driver illegally squeezed past. CDL training materials are explicit: do not turn unless you can complete the maneuver safely.
Higher insurance limits (\$5 million MCS-90 for hazmat) and additional environmental liability. We coordinate with environmental experts for property exposure damages and long-term medical monitoring claims.
Hours-of-service violations under 49 CFR 395 are gold. ELD data shows when the driver should have been off-duty. Drug and alcohol test refusal under 49 CFR 382.211 is automatic disqualification: and a powerful jury argument. We have used a single positive post-crash drug screen to flip a contested liability case in 30 days.
Our personal injury law firm has a proven track record of securing victories for clients who have been wrongfully injured. We have the experience and resources to handle a wide range of complex cases, including.
Driver fatigue, distraction, or following too close, combined with 80,000 pounds of mass, equals catastrophic rear impact. Underride crashes: where a passenger car slides under the trailer: are often fatal or cause severe head and neck trauma. Federal underride guard standards exist (49 CFR 393.86) but enforcement is weak. We pursue rear-impact guard violations and trailer conspicuity tape failures.
Driver error, brake failure, or excessive speed on curves usually drive these crashes. We pull the ECM data showing speed and braking inputs in the seconds before the wreck. Rollovers also raise cargo-securement and load-distribution claims under 49 CFR 393 Subpart I.
Trucks needing to swing left to make a right turn often clip vehicles, cyclists, or pedestrians in the right lane. The trucker is at fault unless they signaled adequately and the other driver illegally squeezed past. CDL training materials are explicit: do not turn unless you can complete the maneuver safely.
Higher insurance limits (\$5 million MCS-90 for hazmat) and additional environmental liability. We coordinate with environmental experts for property exposure damages and long-term medical monitoring claims.
Hours-of-service violations under 49 CFR 395 are gold. ELD data shows when the driver should have been off-duty. Drug and alcohol test refusal under 49 CFR 382.211 is automatic disqualification: and a powerful jury argument. We have used a single positive post-crash drug screen to flip a contested liability case in 30 days.
Three things separate a trucking case from a car wreck: federal regulation, evidence depth, and policy size. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) governs every commercial driver crossing state lines. Their rules cover hours of service, drug testing, vehicle maintenance, driver qualification, and cargo securement. Each rule is a potential liability hook. When a trucker violates an FMCSA safety regulation and causes a crash, that violation can be used to prove negligence per se: negligence as a matter of law in most jurisdictions.
Florida is a no-fault state. Your own Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage pays the first $10,000 in medical bills regardless of who caused the wreck. To step outside PIP and sue the at-fault driver for full damages including pain and suffering, your injury must cross the 'significant injury threshold' under Fla. Stat. 627.737. That threshold matters in rideshare cases because crashes often produce soft-tissue injuries that insurance defense lawyers love to undervalue.
Florida HB 837, signed by Governor DeSantis in March 2023, changed the comparative negligence rule. Florida is now a modified 51% bar state. If a jury finds you more than 50% at fault, you recover zero. Insurance defense attorneys use this aggressively. HB 837 also dropped the negligence statute of limitations from four years to two years. If your crash happened on or after March 24, 2023, you have two years from the date of the crash to file suit. Miss that window and your case is dead.
Texas runs on a similar 51% rule. Cross 50% fault and you recover zero. Texas has no PIP requirement, but most personal policies carry small PIP add-ons of $2,500-$10,000. For rideshare cases in Texas, the $1 million Uber/Lyft policy is the main target. Underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage on your own policy stacks on top, which most victims and even some lawyers miss.
Texas has a tighter venue rule than Florida. Under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code 15.002, you can file suit in the county where the crash happened, where the defendant resides, or where the defendant's principal office sits. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin venues all have plaintiff-friendly jury pools. Texas statute of limitations for personal injury is two years from the crash date under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code 16.003.
Texas has long-standing laws that directly impact the value and viability of your personal injury case. Understanding these rules is crucial.
In Texas, you must file a lawsuit within two years of the date you were injured. This is a strict deadline, and failing to meet it will prevent you from making a claim.
Texas also uses a modified comparative negligence rule. This means you can only recover damages if you are found to be 50% or less at fault for the incident. Your final recovery is then reduced by your percentage of fault. For example, if you are awarded $100,000 but were found to be 20% at fault, your award is reduced by $20,000, and you would receive $80,000.
Texas has limited dram shop laws. Bars and restaurants can be held liable for serving obviously intoxicated persons who then cause injury, but only if the establishment violated specific statutory requirements. Social hosts generally aren't liable for injuries caused by guests they served alcohol, except in cases involving minors.
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Texas truck accident settlements typically range from \$80,000 for moderate injuries to \$7 million+ for catastrophic cases. The largest single-plaintiff Texas truck verdict reached \$140 million for a quadriplegia case. Range depends on injury severity, liability clarity, and policy limits.
Multiple parties usually share liability: the driver, the trucking company (employer), the cargo loader, the maintenance contractor, the parts manufacturer, and sometimes the freight broker. We trace every defendant because each brings a separate insurance policy.
Under 49 CFR 395, property-carrying commercial drivers can drive a maximum 11 hours after 10 consecutive hours off duty, within a 14-hour window. They must take a 30-minute break after 8 hours. Violations show in ELD data and prove driver fatigue negligence.
Under 49 CFR 387.15, the MCS-90 is a federal financial responsibility endorsement attached to a commercial trucker's insurance. It guarantees an injured party will be paid even if the policy has exclusions, up to the federal minimum (\$750,000 for general freight, \$5M for hazmat).
In Florida, generally no: you sue the trucking company, and their insurer pays the judgment. In Texas, direct action against the insurer is allowed in limited circumstances, particularly when the carrier is bankrupt or unreachable. The MCS-90 gives a federal direct-action right in some cases.
Florida: 2 years from the crash date under Fla. Stat. 95.11(4)(a). Texas: 2 years under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code 16.003. Wrongful death is also 2 years in both states.
