If you have a truck accident claim in Alabama, it will be important to speak with an experienced truck accident lawyer to make sure you are doing everything you possibly can to maximize your compensation. You generally only get one chance to assert your legal rights; and, if you settle for too little (even unknowingly), you could face financial and non-financial consequences for years—or even decades—to come.
Big trucking companies – and their insurers – take accident cases very seriously. They typically send their own investigators to the accident scene right away so they can start building a case against you before you’ve even had a chance to heal. To level the field, and to assert your legal rights effectively, you will need an experienced truck accident lawyer on your side.
7 Ways a Truck Accident Lawyer Can Help You Seek Maximum Compensation
Here are just some of the ways an experienced truck accident lawyer can help maximize your compensation after a serious crash:
1. Making Sure You Have All Necessary Medical Documentation
When you have a claim for a truck accident, your medical records are critical evidence for proving how much you are entitled to recover. This is true not only with regard to your medical expenses, but also with regard to your injuries’ other financial and non-financial costs. Your lawyer can help ensure that you have all of the medical documentation needed to determine the full value of your truck accident claim.
2. Working with Medical Experts to Understand Your Long-Term Treatment Needs
Along with helping to gather your medical records, your lawyer can also work with medical experts to understand your long-term treatment needs. This is critical, as the long-term costs of recovering from a serious truck accident can far exceed the costs of initial treatment. Your lawyer can determine what types of experts are needed in your specific case, and then your lawyer can work with these experts to document the long-term (or permanent) effects of your accident-related injuries.
3. Calculating Just Compensation for Your Lost Earnings
If your accident-related injuries prevent you from working, you are entitled to just compensation for your loss of income and benefits under Alabama law. Here, your lawyer can help by determining how long you might be unable to work and then calculating how much you deserve to recover. Whether you will be out of work for weeks, months, or the rest of your life, you do not deserve to bear any financial losses if a truck driver or trucking company is responsible for what happened.
4. Ensuring that You Seek Just Compensation for All Other Out-of-Pocket Costs
In addition to your medical expenses and lost earnings, you are entitled to just compensation for your other out-of-pocket costs resulting from the truck accident as well. These might include things like:
- Transportation costs and vehicle repair (or replacement) costs
- Costs for prescriptions and medical supplies
- Costs for physical and occupational therapy
- Costs for vehicle or home modifications necessitated by disabling injuries
- Costs for hiring in-home health aides, cleaners, landscapers, and other service providers
5. Helping You Prove Your Pain and Suffering
Alabama law also entitles truck accident victims to just compensation for their pain and suffering. However, proving pain and suffering is not easy, so it is important to work closely with an experienced truck accident lawyer who can help make sure you have all of the evidence you need.
6. Helping You Prove the Other Non-Financial Consequences of the Truck Accident
The same is true with regard to the other non-financial consequences of your truck accident as well. When you hire an experienced truck accident lawyer to represent you, your lawyer will help ensure that you are seeking full compensation for your:
- Emotional trauma and post-traumatic stress
- Loss of companionship
- Loss of consortium
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of services, society, and support
7. Handling Your Truck Accident Claim on Your Behalf
While calculating just compensation for all of your accident-related losses is critical, it is also just the first step in the process. Once your lawyer determines how much you are entitled to recover, your lawyer will then use his or her experience to fight for just compensation on your behalf.
Again, these are just examples. If you need help recovering your losses after a serious truck accident, there are many more reasons to put an experienced lawyer on your side. If you need a truck accident lawyer in Alabama, we encourage you to contact us for a free, no-obligation consultation today.
Schedule a Free, No-Obligation Consultation About Your Truck Accident Claim in Alabama
How much are you entitled to recover for your truck accident? Contact us to find out. The experienced truck accident lawyers at Morris, Andrews, Talmadge & Driggers, LLC understand the tactics used by trucking companies and their insurers, and we are committed to helping you recover the maxiximum compensation you deserve.
Don’t face your injuries alone. Contact Morris, Andrews, Talmadge & Driggers, LLC today online or at 844-654-6228 for a FREE case evaluation. With offices in Dothan and Mobile, we represent accident victims throughout Alabama.
