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Being involved in a crash with a large truck is an overwhelming and frightening experience. Such crashes occur far too often. According to reports by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, there were 5,340 fatal motor vehicle crashes in 2021 that involved at least one large truck or bus, another 531,000 non-fatal crashes that involved at least one large truck or bus. The injuries and damage caused in a crash involving a large truck like a tractor trailer is usually far greater than a crash with a passenger vehicle because of the size and weight of the tractor trailer.
If you or someone you know has been injured in a truck accident, hiring an experienced Massachusetts trucking accident lawyer is the only way to pursue full and fair compensation under the law. An experienced truck accident lawyer can help you recover your past and future lost wages, your medical expenses, and other damages linked to an accident caused by a negligent truck driver or trucking company.
Trucking accidents can be caused by a variety of different factors but many of these have to do with the negligence of the truck driver or negligence of the company that hired the truck driver. For example, accidents can be caused by:
- Overloaded trucks
- Drug or alcohol use
- Failure to adhere to federal laws and regulations for truck driving
- Excessive hours
- Driver fatigue
- Distracted driving
- Reckless and aggressive driving
- Jackknife accidents caused by driver’s loss of control
- Dangerous lane changes
- Rollover Accidents
Because tractor trailers are so large and dangerous, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has instituted strict regulations for these trucks and their operators. The FMCSA regulates the amount of hours and consecutive hours a tractor trailer driver can drive during a day and week. The FMCSA also mandates that truck owners perform regular maintenance checks on their vehicles and make any necessary repairs. These regulations are meant to make the roads we share with large trucks safer.
Unfortunately, many trucking companies don’t follow these rules and encourage their drivers to skirt regulations in order to increase profits. Our attorneys and the experts we hire are well-versed in the FMCSA regulations, and are prepared to hold truckdrivers and trucking companies accountable for any crashes caused by failure to follow all of the FMCSA regulations.
Why should you hire Ballin & Associates, LLC?
The experienced team of truck accident lawyers at Ballin & Associates, LLC can take on the burdens that confront victims of truck accident incidents. For example, a lawyer can help you navigate complicated insurance claims. Without an expert lawyer on your side, your claim could be denied or reduced for any number of reasons. Having a truck accident lawyer represent you means that it’s much more difficult for an insurance company to treat you unfairly. We have employed the services of tractor-trailer driving instructors, certified accident reconstructionists, traffic engineers, medical experts and others we find helpful to our mission.
Since 1981 99% of our injured clients have had successful outcomes. How did we do this? By treating our clients like they were our own family. We promise to devote our skill, drive and experience to every client with the compassion they deserve.
What will this cost you?
If our law firm accepts your case, you will pay nothing unless and until we collect compensation for you. Our fee will be a percentage of the amount that we collect on your behalf. We always have a signed written agreement with every client so you know exactly how our fee will be determined right from the start.
What kinds of compensation can we recover for you?
Truck accidents can lead to all kinds of harms and losses, such as the following:
- Medical bills
- Lost time from work and loss of income
- Pain and suffering
- Physical disability
- Permanent scars
- Emotional distress
- Mental anguish
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of love and affection
- Embarrassment and humiliation
- Mental disability
- Future medical bills, and future loss of income
We have represented persons injured in truck accidents injuries all over Massachusetts.
Our truck accident lawyers have handled cases involving car accidents from Cape Cod to the Berkshires, and every place in between. Certain roads and highways seem to have more than their share of car accidents, such as the following:
- The Mass Pike
- Southeast Expressway, particularly the Boston sections
- Route 24 in and around Fall River
- Interstate 95
- Interstate 93
- Route 1 on the North Shore
What is the deadline for filing a lawsuit relating to a truck accident?
All lawsuits for injuries caused by trucking accidents must be filed in court within three years of the date of the incident. However, it is always best to get an experienced injury lawyer involved in your case as soon as possible after a trucking injury. Important evidence, such as evidence recorded by the truck’s dashboard cameras or the truck’s “black box”, or event data recorder, can be lost if an investigation of the accident is delayed.
What if the accident was partially my fault?
Sometimes people blame themselves for any traffic accident. These feelings are perfectly natural and understandable, but you can still recover from a careless or negligent person who also partially caused your injuries. An injured person may recover as long as he or she is not found to be more at fault than the other persons who caused the injury. In other words, if the injured person and another person are equally at fault, the injured person can still recover, but their recovery is reduced by their own percentage of fault. So, if a jury decides the injured person was 25% at fault, that person’s recovery is reduced by 25%. So it still makes sense to pursue compensation from a truck accident, even if you feel that you were partially at fault.
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On-Duty Police Injuries
Because policy injury law is such a highly-specialized branch of personal injury law, you need to partner with a Massachusetts police injury law firm that can bring the right legal knowledge, experience and skill to the table. We bring a targeted focus to a variety of police officer accident and injury work claims throughout Massachusetts.
We represent injured Massachusetts police officers as well as Massachusetts State Troopers, firefighters, other public safety personnel and their families for injuries resulting from the following:
- Road detail crashes
- Dump trucks, excavators, backhoes, and skid steers
- Police cruiser and other motor vehicle accidents
- Police motorcycle accidents
- Traffic direction
- Stolen motor vehicle pursuits
- People who resist arrest
- Domestic call struggles
- Assaults
- Protective custody
- Foot pursuits
- Dog bites and other animal attacks
- Slip and fall accidents
- Snow and ice accidents
- Emergency rescues
- Fires and explosions
- Shootings
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Wrongful death
As a result of these encounters, many police officers can sustain the following short- and long-term injuries that may require time out of work and rehabilitation:
- Sprains and strains: tendons, ligaments, muscles, joints
- Neck, back, shoulder and knee injuries
- Spinal injuries
- Nerve damage involving discs, sciatic and ulnar nerves
- Soreness and pain
- Fractures
- Bruises and contusions
- Cuts, punctures, lacerations
- Tendonitis
- Chemical burns
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Aggravation of prior injuries
The most common non-fatal accidents among police officers involve motor vehicle crashes, heavy equipment on road details, assaults, falls, and resisting arrest. We have seen it all and have helped our clients secure compensation to help them and their families face the extreme financial hardships that come with such injuries.
Attorney For police Officers In Massachusetts
Our goal is to collect as much money as possible for Massachusetts police officers and State Troopers injured while on duty and minimize the financial impact on their families. We also make it a point to ease tensions between the client and the department, if any, and to help the employee return to full duty as quickly as possible. At times, we connect injured officers with respected medical specialists to treat their injuries.
Some officers are of the opinion that they can’t make a claim against a responsible third party who causes their injury. This is not the case. In Massachusetts, it is the right of every individual, no matter what his or her occupation, to be compensated for an injury caused by another. We believe this should and must apply to public safety employees hurt on duty. And that is what the law provides. To learn more about your rights, the law and how these claims are made, view our free recorded webinar: Police Injured On Duty: Learn Your Rights To Make Personal Injury Claims.
We also invite you to view our blogs for more helpful information.
- Nine cases successfully resolved for Massachusetts injured officers between $1 million and $6 million.
- Lectured to more than 50 police organizations and departments for more than 25 years, including the Massachusetts Police Association, Massachusetts Coalition of Police, Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, Massachusetts Association of Women in Law Enforcement, and Massachusetts Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.
- Represented injured Massachusetts police officers since 1988 in more than 200 police departments
- Written a column on police injury law for the Massachusetts Police Association’s Sentinel magazine for more than 25 years.
- Certified as an instructor in police injury law by the Municipal Police Training Committee
- Rated as a Super Lawyer in Massachusetts, a distinction reserved for no more than five percent of attorneys in Massachusetts.
If you have been injured serving in the line of duty, your first call should be to one of our experienced attorneys who can protect your rights and work hard to obtain the maximum compensation amount possible.
At BallinLaw, our Massachusetts police injury attorneys can represent police officers and other members of law enforcement, Massachusetts State Troopers and firefighters in cases ranging from crashes to assaults. To obtain a free, no-obligation consultation, call us today at 800-245-2052.
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