Category: Trucking Accidents Blog

Types of Truck Accidents in Oklahoma City

OUR EXPERIENCED TRUCK ACCIDENT ATTORNEYS FIGHT FOR FULL COMPENSATION Commercial trucks can weigh anywhere from 10,000 pounds to more than 80,000 pounds fully loaded. That kind of weight in a speeding vehicle creates a tremendous amount of impact in a crash. The size and weight of these commercial vehicles make…

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) develops and enforces a variety of regulations to promote safety in the commercial trucking industry. Any carrier that operates across state lines is subject to these regulations. Knowledge of federal trucking laws is critical when accidents happen and innocent people are injured in…

Understanding Semi Truck Accident Liability

If you were injured in a truck accident, Oklahoma personal injury law allows you to seek full compensation against the parties responsible for the truck wreck for the injuries you have suffered. However, trucking companies often fight vigorously to avoid paying out any compensation following big rig accidents involving their…

Truck accidents leave devastation in their wake. In most cases, the truck driver can walk away fine after hitting another vehicle, while those in the smaller passenger vehicle are killed or are impacted by life-altering injuries. Additionally, truck accident victims often get the run-around from trucking companies and the insurance…

Truck Accident Knowledge Course

Well, my overview for this particular course, it’s a hands-on learning experience versus our continual legal education type courses, you know, is classrooms. So this is gonna be a whole different perspective either from an attorney’s perspective trying these cases and, also, from the driver’s perspective. And also it was…

H.R. 3781, the Insurance Act

Recently, H.R. 3781, the INSURANCE Act, was introduced to Congress. The bill would have raised the minimum insurance requirement for commercial motor vehicles. However, the act failed to pass. Read on to learn more about this proposed law and how it may still impact future claims.  What Is H.R. 3781…

Groundbreaking front crash avoidance technology such as forward-collision warning (FCW) and automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems is estimated to make a huge life-saving impact on American roads. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) estimates that by 2025, vehicles equipped with both technologies will prevent 42,000 crashes, 20,000 injuries, and…