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Important Reasons to Hire an Experienced Las Vegas Lawyer to handle your Truck Accident case

Truck Accidents often involve more property damage and personal injury than the typical car accident as a result of the additional force involved. The additional force is caused by the extra weight of the truck. Physical force is calculated by using weight and speed. The greater the weight of the truck, the more force that will be applied to your car upon impact and the greater the damage.  An experienced Las Vegas personal injury truck accident lawyer such as attorney Jack Bernstein with 27 years of personal injury experience knows that Nevada law requires commercial trucks to carry higher levels of insurance coverage than the minimum $15,000 car insurance requirement. It is important to know that trucks with a weight of 10,001 to 26,000 pounds must carry $300,000 insurance per truck accident; those with a weight 26,001 to 80,000 pounds must carry $750,000 insurance per truck accident.

The insurance agent that provides truck insurance coverage for a truck accident must be aware of this requirement and provide the higher insurance limits to the truck owner. If they don’t, the truck owner may bring a claim against their agent to force them to provide the higher insurance limit to compensate you for your personal injury and medical bills which exceed the lower limits.

Skilled Truck Accident Adjusters and Wealthy Companies

Las Vegas Nevada Truck Accident Insurance Adjusters usually work for a commercial truck insurance company. The adjusters handling Las Vegas Nevada truck accidents are highly skilled and licensed to handle these claims. Their goal is to pay as little as possible to the Las Vegas Nevada truck accident personal injury victim. They do not represent you, but rather they represent the truck accident insurance company. You should hire an experienced Las Vegas personal injury lawyer to handle your truck accident case who is skilled at assisting you with getting your car damages repaired or having your car paid off if it was a total loss. Many truck accident cases result in your car being totaled. A total loss of your car means, it costs more to fix your car than your car is worth.

Our Las Vegas personal injury lawyers are experienced in handling truck accident cases. This pressures the truck accident adjuster to pay the maximum amount of money for your personal injury case. If they don’t agree through negotiations to pay a fair amount based upon our experience and knowledge, the Las Vegas Nevada Truck Accident adjuster knows that our Las Vegas Personal Injury lawyers who work at Jack Bernstein and Associates will file a lawsuit against the negligent truck owner. This costs the insurance company thousands of dollars a month to pay their lawyers. The billing from the defense firm will continue relentlessly until the case is settled. We file our own lawsuits at Jack Bernstein and Associates. The local insurance companies are aware of this which typically results in higher offers being made to our firm. They are aware that our firm has the financial resources and experience to fight them hard.

Tired Truck Drivers and Poorly Maintained Trucks

If our experienced Las Vegas personal injury lawyers file suit against a truck company for your Nevada truck accident , we force them to turn over the individual drivers time sheets. We have found the cause of many truck accidents to be driver fatigue resulting from the truck company allowing the driver to work too many consecutive hours. If the records show that pattern, the insurance company usually calls us up to work out a settlement of your Las Vegas Nevada truck accident injury case soon as we pursue those records.

In other cases we have found that truck companies try to cut corners on costs related to maintenance of their trucks which results in accidents. Sometimes they have worn tires, brakes that need to be replaced, lights that don’t work and other parts of the truck that are unsafe causing the accident. I worked on one where the drive shaft fell out of the truck causing the truck accident and they knew it needed to be replaced but didn’t want to spend the money. We will send a subpoena and force the maintenance records to be turned over for our review.

Truck Company Responsible For Negligence of Driver

Trucking Companies are responsible under Nevada truck accident law for all damage done by its employees while driving a truck during their employment. If a trucking company was careless in the hiring, retention or supervision of the truck driver, they may be legally responsible for punitive damages to punish them for not checking into a driver’s history of traffic tickets, prior drunk driving, and accidents they caused. If in addition to carelessness on the part of the truck company, the employee that caused a Las Vegas Nevada Truck accident was drunk, that can allow the truck company to pay for the punitive damages to punish them for such outrageous drunk driving behavior by their employee causing a truck accident. It is important you hire an experienced Las Vegas personal injury lawyer who knows the law involved in this two level negligence by the truck company and separately by their driver.

Skilled Adjusting Company Involvement

Many times the insurance company handling your claim hires an investigative company to investigate you and lessen the amount of money they must pay you. There are several of these adjusting companies which have licensed adjusters and licensed investigators. They must report back to the insurance adjuster at the actual insurance company handling your Las Vegas Nevada truck accident. This allows the truck accident insurance company to have an investigator near you to look into local records, possibly follow you with video cameras in an attempt to discredit your claimed injuries by showing you engaged in physical activity, and typically slows down the settlement of your claim. The adjusting company will negotiate with the Las Vegas Nevada Truck Accident Lawyer over the value of your injuries. They have incentive to pay less money to show the truck insurance company adjuster they were able to pay less than authorized. They may be paid bonuses based on money saved. They may cause delay in negotiations since insurance companies earn interest and dividends on money they have invested. The longer they hold out from paying you, the more interest they earn. If the injuries are very serious or a death is involved, the interest and dividends they earn on the money they know they will have to pay out is greater than the attorney fees and costs they will pay. They will dig in for a long court fight before they finally settle the claim and will not pay until it is first litigated and close to trial. The trial causes them greater risk of a loss of more money than the high end of the value they place on your case, and creates the possibility of a run away money award by a jury that far exceeds their value range.

Centralized Company Truck Accident Claims

Some Big commercial truck companies have a central office where all fifty states truck accident claims are handled. They handle the claims in a sophisticated manner by using highly experienced licensed truck accident insurance adjusters. The insurance adjuster, supervisor and manager will sit around a table and discuss how little they might be able to pay you for your injuries. They will also discuss how much they might have to pay if your case is litigated by experienced Las Vegas personal injury lawyers like those in our firm in the Clark County District Courthouse. The amount of money the Las Vegas Nevada truck accident adjusters believe is the high end of the money your case is worth will only be paid out if you have an experienced personal injury lawyer handling your case, who they believe will file suit and take them to trial for a decision.

Jack G. Bernstein, Esq. or Scott L. Poisson, Esq. will answer their phones and discuss the potential truck accident case with you. Please call us now for a free consultation at 1-888-592-4529 or 702-434-4444 and go over your case at no charge. You can email them now and they will respond if on line immediately or in a short time at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We at Jack Bernstein and Associates also known as Bernstein and Poisson, are sorry that you find yourselves in need of our help but we are ready to help you and your family to obtain the best possible result for your Las Vegas Nevada Truck Accident Case.