The trucking company that hit you does not have to be based in Missouri — or in whatever state the accident happened — for you to bring a full claim against them. Interstate commerce is the core business of commercial trucking, and the legal framework governing these cases was built to accommodate exactly this situation. […]

If you have been injured by a commercial truck and the trucking company is telling you, or you have already heard through channels, that the driver was an independent contractor and therefore the company is not responsible for what happened, you are encountering one of the most deliberately constructed and most frequently deployed liability shields […]

You can sue the trucking company, and in most serious commercial truck accident cases you should. The driver is typically a defendant as well, but the trucking company is almost always the more important defendant from a practical standpoint, and in some cases there are additional defendants beyond both of them whose liability has nothing […]

When a commercial truck is involved in a collision that injures someone, the instinct is to focus on the driver as the person who caused it. The driver was behind the wheel. The driver made the choices that preceded the crash. But in commercial trucking litigation, the driver is frequently not where the meaningful liability […]

A collision with a semi-truck is not a car accident with a larger vehicle. It is a fundamentally different legal and investigative event that activates a set of obligations, evidence sources, and liability theories that do not exist in a crash between two passenger cars. The actions taken — and not taken — in the […]

Multi-vehicle accidents are among the most legally complex situations in personal injury law, and they are complex in ways that rarely get explained to the people who are in them. If you were involved in a crash with three, four, or more vehicles, you are facing a liability picture that may involve multiple defendants, multiple […]

Yes, and the mechanism that makes it possible is the same one that applies when a driver was on their phone or engaged in any other conduct that crosses the line from careless to consciously reckless. A drunk driving accident is not simply a negligence case with a sympathetic set of facts. It is a […]

Yes, you can sue, and in a case where the other driver was texting at the moment of impact, you have the foundation for a strong negligence claim with a specific statutory violation behind it. But the more useful version of that answer addresses something most people asking this question have not yet thought through: […]

If the driver who hit you was looking at their phone instead of the road, you are in a stronger legal position than you would be in a garden-variety accident where distraction is suspected but not documented. Phone use behind the wheel is not simply a form of carelessness that a jury will treat the […]

If the other driver ran a red light and hit you, you are in what looks, from the outside, like one of the cleaner liability situations in personal injury law. Someone violated a traffic control device. You had the right of way. The collision followed directly from the violation. In a world where personal injury […]