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Truck accidents are often devastating or deadly. If you were injured or lost a loved one to a truck accident in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, the lawyers of the Gertler Law Firm can help you claim injury or wrongful death compensation.

Thousands of semi trucks, delivery trucks, and other big commercial vehicles roll up and down I-90, across each of Jefferson Parish’s bridges, and throughout the Parish each day. That means thousands of drivers and vehicles, each of which is a possible point for failure. And when something does go wrong with either, the consequences can be catastrophic.

Mangled vehicles, horrific injuries, and deaths are all too frequently the results of truck accidents in Louisiana, and Jefferson Parish sees more than its fair share of all three. Each one represents one or more families torn apart and often put under extreme emotional and financial strain as they struggle to deal with the loss of a loved one or the aftermath of a terrible injury.

Fortunately, many of these families in Jefferson Parish will not have to endure the full burden of those costs. For decades, the Gertler Law Firm has been helping truck accident victims or their families obtain financial compensation to cover as much of their loss as possible.

To be able to claim financial compensation after a truck accident, Louisiana law requires that the accident not be predominantly the fault of whoever was injured or killed. As long as the truck driver, maintenance company, employer, or some other driver was responsible for the crash, then you may have grounds to file for compensation from them.

If you are a truck accident survivor, chances are you have injuries. In many cases, quite serious or even life-threatening ones. Some of them may be permanent, including paralysis or chronic pain. These injuries come with a cost in terms of medical bills, lost income, pain, trauma and more. But with the help of a good lawyer, you can make the people responsible for the truck accident pay those costs by bringing a personal injury claim against them.

If you have lost a loved one to a truck accident, as far too many families in Jefferson Parish have, then those costs, both emotional and financial, are often even higher. Our lawyers can help you recover some of that loss with a wrongful death claim. It will never bring back a family member, but it can protect their legacy and those like you they have been forced to leave behind.

Trucks can do a lot of damage, so they tend to carry hefty insurance policies, often with upwards of a million dollars in coverage. This is good because, given the harm and death they can cause, the damages from a truck accident can quickly threaten to reach that high or higher.

Unfortunately, it also means that the truck companies and their insurance companies have a strong incentive to fight these claims as well. The possibility of a costly claim will make them less likely to settle and more likely to throw everything from underhanded tactics to extensive surveillance and a lot of lawyers’ hours at the problem.

Bait And Deception

Trucking conglomerates and their insurance companies are well aware of the financial difficulty you or your family will most likely be in following an accident, and they are not afraid to take advantage of it.

By offering tiny sums that may sound like a lot of money at first, they seek to protect themselves from larger possible claims by tricking Parishioners without an experienced attorney into accepting far less than they deserve. Alternatively, they might also offer to answer your questions on the phone or ask you some, only to record your answers and twist them or their context against you to undermine your wrongful death or personal injury claim.

The Cost Of Delays, Denials, And Weak Defenses

These are staples of insurance company tactics and are widely used by trucking companies’ insurance providers as well as by medical insurance companies. After a truck accident, insurance companies will quickly look for reasons not to hold their client at fault, to blame the victim, to dismiss some or all of the damages claimed, or to even contest that you were injured in the accident in the first place.

Delays, on the other hand, serve an even more nefarious purpose. They seek to force you to take a deal out of desperation or run the risk of running out of time to file a claim and bring forward a lawsuit to force them to pay.

Settlements And Surveillance

To save themselves the cost of going to court, once backed into a corner by your lawyer, most insurance companies will make a deal. Whenever they can, however, these deals will be wildly in their favor. When they cannot take advantage of you, they might try to take the issue to court and may even work to undermine your credibility or claim beforehand.

To do so, they will have investigators follow you, checking that your behavior and symptoms match your official diagnosis and that you are following all the recommendations and restrictions your doctor recommended based on your injuries. Nowadays, they can even do so on social media, combing through your posts and any you were tagged in to find evidence that could help them pay less.

The existence of these tactics and others means that you, in turn, need a good team of lawyers on your side if you have been injured or lost a family member to a Jefferson Parish truck accident.

Gertler Law Firm | Experienced personal injury and wrongful death lawyers serving Jefferson Parish truck accident victims and their families.

Have you been injured in a tractor-trailer crash in Jefferson Parish? Have you had to bury a loved one before their time because of a fatal truck accident? Get justice and compensation from those responsible through a personal injury or wrongful death claim.

In Jefferson Parish, New Orleans, or anywhere in the state of Louisiana, the lawyers of the Gertler Law Firm stand ready to help you seek justice and compensation. After any truck accident, call (504) 581-6411 or set up a free consultation to begin the claim process as soon as possible.