Personal Injury Attorney in South Pasadena, CA
A collision with a commercial truck is not just a bigger car accident. The injuries are more severe, several companies may share the blame, and the trucking company's insurer starts building its defense within hours, so the work has to start immediately.
An 80,000-pound truck causes catastrophic damage. Victims often face life-altering injuries, and the medical and financial toll can last for years, which is exactly why these claims are worth fighting for the right way.
A truck crash is also legally more complex than a car accident. More parties can be responsible, larger insurance policies are in play, and a whole layer of trucking regulations governs how the truck and driver were supposed to operate.
Responsibility rarely stops with the driver. Several companies may share the blame, and each may carry its own large policy, so I work to identify every one of them:
Truck cases are governed by federal and state trucking rules covering driver hours, maintenance, loading, and inspections, and violations of those rules are often the key to proving fault. Critical evidence, the truck's electronic logging device, black-box data, driver logs, and inspection records, can be lost or overwritten fast, so I move quickly to preserve it with legal hold notices before it disappears.
California generally gives you two years from the date of the crash to file a Personal Injury lawsuit, with a shorter six-month deadline when a government entity is involved. Because trucking companies start building their defense within hours, reaching out early matters even more here.
California law lets you recover economic damages, your concrete financial losses, and non-economic damages, the human costs that are harder to measure. I make sure every category that applies to your case is counted.