Killed by a Semi Truck:
Attorney for Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Our accident attorneys have won millions for families whose loved one were killed in a truck accident, including a recent wrongful death settlement for $2,850,000. Read about our top cases. We are not paid unless you win.

We hold trucking companies and semi truck drivers accountable by taking every measure to win as much money as possible for the family. In many of our wrongful death cases, the family uses the money to honor the memory of the loved one who died.

If you hire a truck accident lawyer at Pritzker Olsen to represent you, we will immediately do our own investigation of the accident:

Send a spoliation letter. This is a letter to the trucking company requesting that the company preserve evidence related to the accident.
Inspect the tractor and trailer. Every case involving someone killed by a semi truck requires an inspection of the truck, including the tractor and trailer. Below, accident attorneys Fred Pritzker and Eric Hageman inspect a semi truck with truck accident experts they hired.
Inspect other vehicles involved in the accident. Our lawyers also inspect any other vehicle involved in the accident. For example, if your loved one was driving a car when he or she was hit and killed by a semi truck, our lawyers would inspect the wrecked car, taking pictures and analyzing the wreckage. Again, we hire engineers and others who are accident reconstruction experts to help us.
Obtain documents from the trucking firm. We make the trucking company and anyone else responsible for the wrongful death hand over all relevant documents. We pour over them looking for evidence of regulation violations, including driving too many hours, inadequate drug testing, etc. We also look at corporate relationships to determine what companies can be sued.
Interview witnesses. Our tractor-trailer accident lawyers do interviews of witnesses, trucking company employees and others in the presence of a court reporter. The resulting transcript can be used as evidence at trial. This interview process is called a deposition. It is an expensive process, but depositions are important evidence and can lead to more evidence.

For many of our clients, the money is secondary. What they want is to know the truth and to hold all responsible parties accountable for the death of their loved one. Our law firm has the experience, skill and money to do that.

Killed by a Semi Truck:
Wrongful Death Claim

When your loved one is killed by a semi truck, you have wrongful death claims against all parties legally responsible (“liable”) for the accident. This can include the truck driver, the driver’s employer, the owner of the truck and trailer, the owner of the freight, a maintenance company, a manufacturer of a defective truck part, a bar that served a drunk truck driver, and others.

Wrongful death claims involve specific laws that outline the procedures a family must go through to file the claims and recover on them. In most states, a wrongful death trustee (or the equivalent) is appointed by the court. This trustee acts on behalf of the family. Our lawyers work with the trustee and family members to win the case.

In all of our truck accident death cases, we take the time to get to know who the person who died was, what that person meant to the family (both financially and emotionally), what the person’s job was and what future prospects the person may have had, and what the person’s hobbies and other community activities were. We try to get as full a picture as possible of the person’s life because we have to persuasively present evidence as to the value of that life. The process is difficult for the family, but we understand and try to make it part of the healing process and not an additional burden.

In most states, the wrongful death laws allow next of kin to recover on a wrongful death claim. “Next of kin” as defined in most states includes a spouse, parents, children, grandparents, siblings, nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles.

Pritzker Olsen attorneys have appeared on CBS News and Fox's "Geraldo Live" to discuss wrongful death litigation and public safety. They have also been interviewed by The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lawyers USA and others.

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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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