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Fatal Truck Accident Lawyers San Marcos – Investigation
The team of attorneys and investigators at the our Law Offices will move just as quickly after you engage us. Our firm will find and protect the physical evidence. Our firm will sequester the truck involved in the accident to make sure our firm is able to thoroughly examine this and all its maintenance records. Our firm will dig into the vehicle driver’s driving, employment, and criminal records to see if any past incidents of carelessness, drug use, or substandard training or performance have occurred. Our firm will find relevant witnesses and take their testimonies while their memories are fresh. Our firm will do all of the hard work required to identify the truth of what happened in the fatal truck accident that’s left you without your family member. After this has been done, our firm will work to make sure that you’re fully and properly compensated for your loss through either lawsuit or by eliciting a just settlement.More about our San Marcos Truck Accident Attorney here
Speaking of settlements, this is almost always the goal of an at-fault trucking firm and its insurance firm to make a quick offer to achieve the smallest settlement available. After you accept such a settlement you can’t make a legal claim for additional compensation. Therefore, this is imperative to consult with your attorney to make sure you are getting the best available settlement. The settlement should be just, and compensate you for all of the injuries and damages you have sustained. In determining the amount you deserve, the insurance firm may not be taking into account all of the damages caused by the accident such as loss of wages, pain and anguish, car repairs, health care fees, future treatment costs and other damages.
The hefty insurance policies that trucking firms are required to carry on their drivers are many times worth 50 times or more than their passenger vehicle counterparts and insurance firms don’t like having to pay that out. Trucking firms in turn don’t like losing a lawsuit and having their insurance pay out because this has a large effect on the rates they have to pay if the firm itself is found responsible. With the insurance firm standing to lose sometimes millions when their client is found responsible for a wrongful death trucking accident lawsuit, they are motivated to work as hard as possible to not lose any of that profit. They may afford to spend much more money defending against paying these claims in a court of law than these costs to pay out the damages.
That’s tough for them but that’s not our concern. Our concern is you because if you’ve lost a family member due to a trucking accident, you’re entitled to seek compensation. To accomplish this, you’ll need a strong jury trial strategy. You’ll need a compelling body of physical evidence presented in a way that sways the jurors. You’ll need a lawyer knowledgeable with the tactics defense attorneys use in these kinds of fatal truck accidents.
A successful jury trial strategy and lawsuit shows the four elements of duty, breach, causation and damages. These are complicated issues and this is why you need someone who has handled these kinds of lawsuits. The lawsuit you present must show that the defendant in your accident owed your late family member some particular duty to act in a way that wouldn’t cause you harm. Generally speaking the duty that people owe to protect others is dictated by law. This depends largely on the details of the situation at hand and on the relationships between the parties themselves, but our firm knows the large body of law and precedents that govern fatal truck accidents very well. For our team of attorneys, this is not hard to show that defendant or defendants in the fatal truck accident lawsuit that took your family member owed the deceased at least some duty.
