With over 6.7 million drivers in Los Angeles, it is only time before one vehicle hits another one. Car accidents are scary, even the small ones. Fender benders are little reminders that you should stop texting and start paying attention. When a car hits another car, at lower speeds, the fatality...
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Determining Fault In A Multi-Vehicle Truck Accident (Understanding California’s Comparative Negligent Doctrine)
California is home to traffic congestion and multi-vehicle accidents. Often, pile-up multi-vehicle crashes on California's highways and freeways involve big trucks. More often than not, these crashes are so devastating that authorities have to close several or all lanes on the highway or freeway.
A truck is more likely to cause a multi-vehicle accident than...
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Logbook Errors: a Common Cause of Commercial Truck Accidents
Due to the sheer weight and size of large commercial trucks, they have the potential to cause major damage in a collision. Because of their destructive power, the U.S. government keeps trucking companies and their drivers highly regulated, including the mandatory use of logbooks. Trucking companies must keep an accurate record of the amount...
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You’ve been hit by a truck. What should you do now?
Any type of accident can be extremely scary. It happens unexpectedly and can truly terrify you. No one is prepared for something like this. Accidents involving commercial trucks can be even more devastating. Your injuries may be more severe and long term. Liability for these kinds of accidents can be complicated. The people who...
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Expect These 4 Legal Difficulties After A Truck Accident In California (And Ways To Overcome Them)
Ask any Los Angeles truck accident attorney: recovering damages after a motor vehicle collision involving a truck is possible if you play your cards right, but extremely difficult.
You may run into a wide range of difficulties and complications when seeking compensation for injuries and damages sustained in a...
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What Commuters Should Know About Truck Accidents
Any vehicle accident can have devastating and even deadly consequences for all parties involved, but certain types of vehicles pose a greater threat when it comes to collisions. One such vehicle is the semi truck. With its heavyweight and larger size, a semi truck—even when not hauling a trailer—can cause serious damage to persons...
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You Can’t Hold A Trucking Company Liable For Drunk Driving (Even If It Was Aware That The Driver Was Drunk)
You may be shocked to hear this, but you cannot always hold trucking companies responsible for the negligent, reckless, intentional or wrongful acts on the part of their drivers. In some cases, it may not be possible even if the company was aware of the wrongful act…
It is true that a trucking company can...
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6 Ways To Maximize The Value Of Your Personal Injury Claim After A Truck Accident
Seeking compensation after a truck accident is not exactly a complicated process, yet many injured people in Los Angeles and all across California fail to recover the maximum amount of damages.
One of the many tried-and-true ways to maximize the value of your personal injury case after a truck crash in...
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First Underground Los Angeles Tunnel Could Be Operational in Just a Few Months
Elon Musk has a plan to help ease the traffic in Los Angeles, and it comes in the form of an underground tunnel. An environmental review exemption was granted by the City Council public works committee last month, for a tunnel stretching 2.7 miles through LA, giving Musk’s Boring Company engineers space and scope...
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Different Types Of Improperly Loaded Trucks: Determining Liability In A Truck Accident
Trucks are massive and huge by their design. In fact, a commercial tractor-trailer can weigh up to 80,000 pounds in the United States. That is a powerful destructive force on its own, but add dozens of thousands of pounds of cargo on top of that, and it becomes a weapon of mass destruction.
You see,...
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