What Compensation am I Entitled to
When My Car is Hit By a Truck?

Below is a general idea of what compensation is recoverable when your bicycle, motorcycle or car is hit by a truck. These will vary, depending on the facts and the applicable laws. Our attorneys are available for a free consultation about your accident.

Compensation for injured driver or passenger of car hit by a truck may include the following:

Past and future medical expenses
Past and future lost wages
Cost of care
Past and future pain and suffering (includes disfigurement, disability, physical pain and emotional distress)
Loss of quality of life
Other damages

Compensation for the family of a person killed by a truck may include the following:

Lost economic contributions
Loss of care and companionship
Funeral expenses
Medical expenses
Other damages

In some cases, punitive damages may be appropriate. For example, if the truck driver was drunk.

What Will the PritzkerOlsen Law Firm Do For Me?

Our truck accident lawyers have successfully recovered compensation for victims of truck accidents and the families of people killed in truck accidents. We have obtained multi-million dollar amounts by knowing our clients, knowing the opposition, and using every legal tool at our disposal to defeat the oppisition.

If you hire PritzkerOlsen lawyers to represent you after your car is hit by a commercial truck, we will immediately begin our own investigation of the accident. This includes having an attorney and one of our private investigators go to the scene of the accident, getting all relevant documentary evidence from the trucking company and the truck driver, and interviewing witnesses.

We will also take care of all of your related legal needs. For example, when a client needs help with a social security or disability insurance issue, we make sure the right forms are filled out and submitted.

If you were in a car-truck accident, please contact a truck accident lawyer at PritzkerOlsen for a free consultation: 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free) or submit our free truck accident case consultation form.

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Wins Millions for Client

Attorney Fred Pritzker won $6,000,000 for a client whose right leg was amputated when the motorcycle on which she was a passenger was struck by a drunk driver. If you have been in an accident with a DUI driver, you may have a cliam against a bar or other place that sells alcohol.

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Our law firm recently won $2,850,000 for a family whose loved one was killed by a truck wheel that crashed through a car windshield. Read about a truck wheel off accident.

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Attorneys Fred Pritzker and Elliot Olsen obtained a $2,750,000 recovery for a 59 year-old truck driver who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the loss of his left eye and significant disfigurement when the tow chain being used to pull the man’s semi tractor-trailer out of a ditch broke loose from a front-end loader to which it was attached.

Semi-Truck Crash Settlement

Pritzker Olsen attorneys Fred Pritzker and Eric Hageman recently obtained a hard-fought $2,560,000 recovery for a couple who were seriously injured in a semi-truck crash. The husband suffered serious head injury (TBI). Read about the semi truck crash settlement.

Our lawyers have recovered millions more for our clients. Contact us for a free consultation about your accident.

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What Compensation am I Entitled to When My Car is Hit By a Truck?