Are Florida truck accident claims more difficult than car accident claims?
- A trucking accident typically involves a tractor-trailer or other large commercial vehicle that can weigh as much as 80,000 pounds. By their sheer size alone typically cause much greater harm than a car versus car accident. That is one of the reasons that Florida and federal law require that tractor-trailers carry a much higher insurance limit than a car owner has to have. In addition, truck accident claims are often more complicated because there can be multiple at fault parties, including those entities that maintain the truck, those entities that employed and trained the truck driver, those that loaded the trailer and others who had an ownership interest in the tractor or the trailer. There are also multiple potential theories of liability, not just driver negligence, but negligent training, negligent hiring, negligent maintenance, and negligent loading among others. So in a complicated and serious trucking accident, you should seek legal counsel from an experienced personal injury attorney that knows how to take on these trucking companies.
