September 27, 2018
Truck accident lawsuits over the past several years have yielded a high number of multi-million dollar recoveries for family members injured and killed in semi truck crashes. As a prime example, lawyers point to a 2018 legal case in Texas…
May 6, 2018
Our truck accident lawyers are pushing for higher minimum insurance limits for trucking companies. “If we don’t raise the insurance limits we’re not following U.S. policy to protect the public from losses caused by at-fault trucks,’’ said Fred Pritzker, a…
June 12, 2017
If your loved one was riding a motorcycle, hit a parked semi-truck, and died, it may be a “wrongful death” under state law. Below are questions that need to be answered: Was the truck parked illegally? Was the truck parked…
February 14, 2017
A man from Portland, Oregon, was only 31 years old when the semi-truck he was driving in Idaho struck hay bales that had fallen into his path from another tractor-trailer rig. The time was 11:50 a.m. on February 9, 2017, when…
January 25, 2017
Emergency responders were unable to revive an accident victim at the scene of a three-vehicle collision. One of the vehicles involved in the morning accident was a semi-truck. The other two vehicles were a minivan and a pickup truck. Police…
January 21, 2017
Live Oak, Florida, was the location this week of a fatal semi-truck collision that sent a pickup truck down a steep embankment, killing the driver, a man from Tampa, Florida. Highway Patrol and Suwannee County officials reported that the 56-year-old…
January 11, 2017
Family and friends in Orange, Texas, are mourning the loss of two people after the two died at the scene of a horrific semi-truck crash. The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a press release saying that a Kenworth truck…
December 23, 2016
The Major Accident Investigation Unit of the Chicago Police Department is investigating the traffic death of 84-year-old Telesfora Escamilla, who reportedly was struck by an Amazon delivery truck as she was walking in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood on the city’s…
December 12, 2016
One man was killed and another injured when an interstate transport truck lost control on Interstate 275 north of Cincinnati on December 11, 2016. A 2007 Volvo semi-trailer truck, driven by Angeson Abreha, a 31-year-old man from Denver, Colorado, was…
November 29, 2016
When the driver of a large truck is speeding, following too closely, driving erratically, or driving while using a cell phone, that is unsafe behavior, and that truck needs to be pulled over and the driver ticketed. There is little…
November 14, 2016
Attorney Eric Hageman has helped people injured in rollovers get compensation and justice. When a tanker truck rolls over onto a car or motorcycle, the result can be severe injuries and wrongful death. “When a cargo tank truck is transporting…
November 9, 2016
Large truck crashes result in thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of injuries each year. Because of their size and weight (50,000 to 80,000 pounds with a load of freight), they introduce a disproportionate hazard to the occupants of…