Available 24/7If you were hurt in a Coeur d’Alene, ID accident caused by a tractor-trailer driver, you have legal options. It is critical that you seek legal advice from a knowledgeable truck accident lawyer to ensure you get justice. Our team from Sargent Law Firm Injury Lawyers can help you hold the liable party responsible for your damages.
Our Coeur d’Alene personal injury attorneys understand the relevant Idaho laws and regulations concerning truck accidents. For years, Ryan Sargent and our team of truck accident lawyers have helped victims get the compensation they need and deserve based on the case facts. We provide free case consultations so you can contact us for information, risk-free. Call us today: (844) SARGENT.
How Can Sargent Law Firm Coeur d’Alene Truck Accident Lawyers Help?
At Sargent Law Firm Injury Lawyers, we have the necessary skills, experience, and extensive knowledge of truck accident law to win cases against large trucking companies. You can count on our team to:
- Provide a free case review where you can learn more about your case, the services we provide, and get answers to your questions
- Make it easy to hire us, including getting started with no upfront fees
- Develop a plan to build a compelling case to hold the trucking company or another liable party responsible
- Methodically gather evidence to strengthen your case
- Ensure you get the medical treatment you need for your truck accident injuries
- Demand fair compensation from the at-fault party’s insurance carrier and negotiate until we reach a settlement, handling all legal aspects of your case
- Litigate your case, if necessary, preparing and filing a lawsuit and representing your best interests at trial
Our attorneys are dedicated to helping truck accident victims recover—physically, emotionally, and financially. We do not believe you should have to pay enormous expenses and losses related to a truck collision when the truck driver caused the crash.
Let your local injury law firm handle your case. We have obtained over $40 million in settlements, judgments, and verdicts for our clients over the years. We are right here in Coeur d’Alene. We can meet you at Kootenai Health, another nearby facility, at your home, in our office, or over the phone.
When we handle a case, we fight aggressively and seek fair compensation for our client. We will not back down. We know how much an appropriate payout that includes future and ongoing care costs means to truck crash victims.
We are a contingency fee firm. We do not charge anything until we close the case. Our attorneys receive a portion of the payout as fees. This ensures anyone can hire our team regardless of their current financial circumstances, and they never have to pay us out of their pockets. If we do not win, we do not get paid.
Who Is Responsible for Causing My Coeur d’Alene Truck Collision and Injuries?
Truck accidents have the capacity to be catastrophic. Because they often involve vehicles of varying sizes and speeds, truck accidents tend to be complex matters. Occupants of smaller passenger vehicles rarely fare well when they collide with a 72-foot, 80,000-pound big rig at highway speeds.
The best resource you can have in a Coeur d’Alene, ID case involving a commercial truck is an experienced, knowledgeable truck accident lawyer. Our team is here to help you develop a case and hold the trucking company or another at-fault party responsible. We know what frequently causes these truck accidents and how to present evidence for a compelling case.
Although situations vary, some contributing factors to truck collisions include:
- High Speeds: Approximately 1 in every 5 fatal truck accidents involves excessive speeding. Sometimes, speeding may be encouraged by the trucking company to make tight deadlines or deliver cargo sooner.
- Exhaustion: When someone is fatigued, they are not fully functional and prepared to react appropriately if a situation occurs. There are strict laws about rest and sleep breaks for long-haul truckers, but these are not always followed. Trucking companies may make it difficult for their drivers to get adequate rest and still meet delivery deadlines.
- Improperly Loaded Cargo: If the load the truck is carrying is not properly loaded or secured, it could shift. This is a cause of rollovers, losing loads, and other serious issues. The driver, trucking company, or cargo owner might be legally responsible.
- Recklessness: While driving, reckless behavior involves frequent lane changing, not maintaining appropriate distance from other vehicles, suddenly applying brakes, and other similar behaviors. When behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle, these behaviors are especially dangerous.
- Driving Under the Influence: Driving under the influence of alcohol and other drugs is, unfortunately, very common in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Drug and alcohol use among truck drivers contributes to many collisions. There is mandatory post-accident testing for drugs and alcohol for all truck drivers involved in a crash.
While these are all contributing causes to collisions and documenting them can support our efforts to hold the trucking company responsible, none of them show the proximate cause of the crash. We need to determine what happened and how the truck driver acted negligently, directly causing the collision. The most common cause is the same as other auto accidents: carelessness.
Showing the proximate cause of a crash requires an investigation. As a part of this investigation, we seek to document:
- The driver owed our client a duty of care, often based on a traffic law
- They breached that duty by violating the law
- Their breach was the cause of the collision
- Our client suffered injuries in the crash
Examples of common causes of truck accidents include:
- Running red lights or stop signs
- Failure to yield when turning left
- Failure to clear an adjacent lane before moving into it
- Taking too wide of a turn without checking for other traffic first
- Failure to slow and stop for stopped traffic ahead
- Issues with speed and turning lead to jackknife accidents and rollover collisions
To show what happened, who is liable, and how much our client lost because of the crash, we need evidence. We investigate every Coeur d’Alene collision case we handle. This could require us to:
- Collect testimonies from witnesses
- Gather digital images of the scene
- Collect video of the crash/injury
- Speak with medical professionals, among other experts
- Obtain the accident report filed by the police and other official documents
- Review relevant medical records
- Gather and analyze documents showing the client’s damages
While all these steps are necessary in any auto accident case, commercial vehicle collision cases create even more evidence. However, much of it is in the trucking company’s hands. We send a letter demanding they preserve this evidence for a possible lawsuit based on the case. This is known as a spoliation letter. This action could protect evidence, including:
- Dashcam video of the crash
- The driver’s rest logs
- The truck’s “black box” or other computer data
- The post-accident drug and alcohol test results
- Images of the damage to the truck and trailer
- Information about the cargo load
- The driver’s employment file, including any previous accidents
- The driver’s most recent DOT physical exam results
- Other evidence essential to the case
Trucking companies usually have specialized legal teams to handle cases against them. Our attorneys know how to develop a strong case to show them why they should settle outside of court. When necessary, we will sue the trucking company and will not back down. We are not afraid to go toe-to-toe with their corporate lawyers or insurance carriers to recover the compensation our client needs and deserves.
If and when these cases go to trial, a jury will determine who presents the most compelling case, issuing a verdict. The judge will order a payout if the court rules in our client’s favor.
Obtain Financial Compensation for Your Truck Accident With a Truck Accident Lawyer in Coeur d’Alene, ID
When our Coeur d’Alene attorneys handle a truck collision case, we know our clients need all the money we can recover on their behalf. We use the case facts, including documenting their physical, emotional, and psychological pain and suffering, to hold the trucking company or another liable party responsible.
We do not believe truck collision victims should have to pay out of their own pockets to cover related medical care, daily expenses such as parking at the hospital, or even traveling to see a specialist. The trucking company is vicariously liable for their driver’s careless driving, and we believe their insurance company should pay.
Injuries are by far the most common result of a truck accident. Few people walk away from a significant impact unscathed. You could face severe lacerations, muscular tearing, broken bones, traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and many other issues. The severity of your injuries and their lasting effects are the most important factors in the value of your Coeur d’Alene truck accident payout.
When we seek compensation for our clients hurt in a truck accident, we often pursue financial compensation for the following:
- Surgeries: Oftentimes, you will need medical surgeries after a severe accident. You will have to cover the actual cost of the surgery plus other fees to medical professionals. This can get extremely expensive. It is your legal right to sue for compensation to cover the costs and fees associated with surgery associated with the accident.
- Therapies: Different types of therapies are normally required to effectively recover from an accident. Many with catastrophic injuries require inpatient rehabilitation. These treatments are extremely expensive and can break the bank. It is best to include this in your claim for compensation.
- Lost income: Even if you recover from your injuries, you will likely miss several days or weeks at work. You might miss more time in the future going to appointments or even court if we need to take your case to trial. Keep track of the days you miss work, and we can pursue compensation for your lost income.
- Reduced earning capacity: After an accident, you may not be able to completely recover and might not be able to resume the job you once held. If you have lost your income due to an accident, your claim should include compensation for future income losses. Sargent Law Firm Injury Lawyers will work with you to calculate an appropriate amount, doing everything in our power to get maximum compensation under existing statutes.
- Vehicle damage: Idaho mandates that all drivers have their vehicles (including trucks) insured. Even if you have the required vehicle insurance, you would normally claim these damages as a part of your case against the trucking company. The law is explicit in stating you have a legal right to this compensation.
- Future medical treatment and care costs: If you have long-term injuries or lasting impairments, your need for medical care and support does not end when you accept a settlement. Our team ensures we understand your prognosis and the estimated cost of your ongoing or future care before we accept a settlement offer in your case.
- Pain and Suffering: Often, the intangible pain and suffering you endured and may continue to endure because of your accident and injuries is the most valuable part of a truck accident case. We assign a value to your non-economic damages and fight for a payout that compensates you for them fairly.
Sometimes, truck accident injuries are just too severe. The victim cannot survive them, and they pass away. If this happened to your loved one, let a Coeur d’Alene wrongful death attorney from our team extend our deepest condolences. We want to help you get justice, and the Idaho wrongful death laws may allow us to pursue compensation on your behalf. We will review your case for you today for free.
Talk to an Experienced Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Truck Accident Lawyer
Sargent Law Firm Injury Lawyers provides free case reviews at our Coeur d’Alene law office. We can also meet you at a location convenient for you or discuss your case over the phone. Call our office today to get answers to your questions, learn your rights, and discuss your legal options. We are here to help!
Contact us by dialing (844) SARGENT. We have someone available to answer your call 24/7.
