Wrongful Death Truck Accident

Answer:

One of the questions I often get is why do I need to hire an attorney right away after I’ve been involved in a truck accident? It’s very simple. The first phone call the trucking company is going to make as soon as their truck is involved in any kind of crash is to their insurance company, and the first phone call the insurance company is going to make is to their lawyers. Their lawyers will literally be on the scene before the vehicles have been moved from the scene. In one case that I had a few years ago, their lawyers were on the scene before they had moved my client’s husband, who had been killed in the wreck. Is it important for you to also have your attorney involved right from the beginning? Absolutely, because these lawyers are collecting evidence – and they’re not collecting evidence to help your case. They’re not there to be objective. They’re not there to find out what happened. They’re there to collect evidence that they think will help them as they defend their case against your claims. It’s very important that you also have your attorney involved right away.

One of the things that your attorney can do is to secure the downloads from these trucks that will show the speed that they were traveling, whether they were braking appropriately, whether they were changing lanes. There’s a lot of information on these downloads that your lawyer can get for you that you cannot get on your own because you have to ask the right questions. You have to send the right communications to the other side. You have to send preservation notices so that they don’t destroy that information. Of course, you would like to come out and actually inspect the truck yourself to see if there’s any evidence that will support your claims that it was their fault that caused what happened to you.