Georgia tractor-trailer accidents often cause catastrophic injuries and death in the blink of an eye, and those injured and the families of those killed need to act fast to ensure a proper claim can be made against the truck driver, his company and his insurance company. Large trucking companies and their insurance companies aggressively defend these cases for several reasons:
• Tractor trailer accidents cause catastrophic injuries and death;
• Jurors are less sympathetic to trucking companies; and
• Juries often award larger verdicts against trucking companies than they do drivers of private cars.
These companies have rapid response teams made up of lawyers and investigators that can arrive on accident scenes within hours to secure physical evidence and statements to help them defeat any future claims by those injured or the families of those killed. Accordingly, lawyer representing tractor trailer accident victims need to act equally fast to secure and preserve all available evidence needed to support these claims.
To do this, trucking accident victims need to hire an experienced trucking accident lawyer as soon as possible after the accident. Once this happens, the lawyer will immediately put together his or her own rapid response team which should include an experienced accident reconstructionist, an experienced truck mechanic/inspector, an experienced safety compliance expert, an experienced investigative photographer, as well as other experienced experts, including someone knowledgeable in downloading and reading the on board computer. There can be no delay in hiring these experts to ensure they act quickly to preserve and analyze all the available evidence to properly respond to the defense team and develop a winning case.
I know if you or a family member has been the victim of a tractor trailer accident, the last thing you will probably be thinking about is hiring an attorney to make a claim. Unfortunately, if you do not act quickly and consult with an attorney, the ability to prevail on your claim may be lost.
