Greensboro: Truck Accident Lawyer

Where These Wrecks Happen Around Greensboro

• The I-40 and I-85 split west of the city. Merging traffic, high volume, and heavy freight make it one of the worst stretches in North Carolina.
• Long hauls through the I-85 corridor or along I-40, where fatigue and hours of service violations catch up with drivers.
• Speeding and tailgating. An 80,000 pound vehicle needs far more room to stop than a driver in a hurry allows.
• Cargo that wasn’t loaded or secured properly. It shifts and rolls the truck, or it comes off into traffic.
• Brake and tire failures from skipped maintenance, which show up on the Urban Loop grades.
• Cell phone use in the cab.
• Impaired driving. We pursue the driver and the carrier, and in some cases a bar or restaurant that kept serving.

What These Crashes Do to People

Occupants of the smaller vehicle take nearly all the force in a truck crash. Our trucking files regularly involve traumatic brain injury, spinal cord damage, crush injuries, multiple fractures, amputations, and burns from fuel fires. Many of these clients need ongoing medical care for the rest of their lives.

North Carolina lets a truck accident victim recover medical bills already incurred and funding for all future medical care. The key is proper medical evidence and doctors’ testimony.  Lost wages and lost future earning capacity are recoverable too. On top of that, the victim can collect generous tax-free compensation for pain, suffering, permanency of injury, scarring or disfigurement, and lost quality of life. When a truck crash results in fatal injuries, the family can bring a wrongful death lawsuit within two years of the date of the wreck.  We certainly move much faster than that, but this is the deadline that must be met or the case is lost forever.

Case costs in these files run high. Black box analysis, crash reconstruction experts, medical experts, and life care planners who price out decades of treatment all cost money. We advance every dollar of it. Those costs come back out of the settlement at the end, and we only invest money on evidence we are confident will increase the case value substantially.

One Percent Fault Ends Your Truck Crash Case

North Carolina still follows the law of pure contributory negligence. A finding that the injured person was 1% at fault bars recovery completely.

Trucking companies know this. With catastrophic injuries and seven-figure policies on the table, they hire counsel the day of the wreck and comb the scene for anything that shifts a sliver of blame. Establishing slight fault costs them nothing and saves them everything. Their investigators begin assembling that story before the road reopens.

Injury lawsuits generally must be filed within three years. That deadline is not the one that should govern your timing.

Our Fee Is 25 Percent

Our firm’s contingency fee is 25% of settlement, compared with the 33.3% most personal injury firms charge. Clients keep 75% of every settlement dollar instead of about 66%. On a $1 million settlement, that’s an additional $83,000 in the client’s hands, untaxed. The same rate applies in federal court.

Carl set it there on purpose. Families in trucking cases are usually replacing an income permanently rather than covering a gap. He wasn’t willing to take a third of money that has to last that long.

Our Greensboro Office

Our Greensboro personal injury office is at 7 Corporate Center Ct, Greensboro, NC 27408. Call (336) 723-4500 or (800) 411-1583 for a free consultation. Nothing is owed up front, and no fee is owed unless and until we collect. If your injuries keep you at home or in the hospital, a lawyer will come to you at no charge.

Results and Client Reviews

The firm’s recoveries include multi-million-dollar outcomes in serious trucking cases. Over roughly 30 years, the firm has recovered more than $750 million for North Carolina car, truck, motorcycle, and roadway crash victims. Clients who came to us after truck wrecks tend to say the same thing in their reviews: they stopped fielding phone calls and bills and got to focus on their surgeries and physical therapy instead. Hundreds of them have written about it.