Georgia truck accidents
Truck Accidents Lawyers
Protecting your rights after a life-changing collision
- Evidence preservation letters must go out within days
- FMCSA hours-of-service and maintenance violations expand liability
- Multiple defendants: driver, motor carrier, broker, shipper, maintenance contractor
- Policy limits are typically 750,000 to several million, unlike car cases
How these cases work
Proving a truck accident case
An 18-wheeler carries up to 80,000 pounds and a rapid-response team that is on scene before you leave the hospital. Trucking cases are federal regulatory cases as much as injury cases: hours-of-service logs, ECM black-box data, driver qualification files, maintenance records and negligent hiring evidence all disappear unless a spoliation letter goes out immediately. Our firm is led on trucking by a National Board of Trial Advocacy board-certified truck accident attorney.
Georgia rules that control your claim
- Filing deadline
- Two years from the date of the crash for personal injury and wrongful death claims (O.C.G.A. 9-3-33). Property damage claims get four years. Claims against a city, county, or the state carry ante litem notice deadlines as short as six months.
- Fault rule
- Modified comparative negligence with a 50% bar (O.C.G.A. 51-12-33). You can recover as long as you are less than 50% at fault, but your award is reduced by your share of the blame.
- Minimum coverage
- $25,000 per person / $50,000 per accident bodily injury and $25,000 property damage. Georgia does not require uninsured motorist coverage, but insurers must offer it in writing.
Crash scenarios
Fault depends on how it happened
Carriers argue fault scenario by scenario. These break down who is presumed at fault and what evidence flips it.
Common injuries
Injuries we see in these crashes
- Burn InjuriesThermal and chemical burns from post-collision fire, fuel ignition or airbag deployment. Burn cases carry scarring and disfigurement damages that are separate from medical cost and often exceed it.
- Fractures & Orthopedic TraumaBroken bones from crash forces range from a clean tibia fracture to comminuted, multi-surgery orthopedic trauma with hardware. Value depends far less on the break itself than on the permanent limitation, hardware retention and future arthritis risk that follow.
- Herniated DiscA herniated disc happens when the soft center of a spinal disc pushes through its outer wall and presses on a nerve root. It is the single most common serious crash injury and the one insurers most often blame on degeneration. Winning it means proving the crash either caused the herniation or made an asymptomatic condition symptomatic.
- Spinal Cord InjurySpinal cord damage causing partial or complete loss of function below the level of injury. These are lifetime-cost cases requiring a life-care plan covering attendant care, home modification, equipment replacement cycles and lost earning capacity.
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)A TBI does not require losing consciousness and frequently does not show on a standard CT scan. Mild TBI is the most under-documented and most aggressively disputed injury in Georgia crash litigation, because the symptoms are invisible and the insurer will attribute them to stress or pre-existing conditions.
Case results
What we've recovered
$2.5M
Settlement
Trucking crash victim against a corporate defense team.
$1.8M
Recovery
Justice for a family in a wrongful death case.
$1.2M
Verdict
Catastrophic injury, trial-tested victory.
$475K
Settlement
Pedestrian struck at a crosswalk.
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By city
Truck Accidents by Georgia city
Local courthouse, local jury pool, local road history. Start where your crash happened.
- Atlanta truck accidentsFulton County
- Columbus truck accidentsMuscogee County
- Augusta truck accidentsRichmond County
- Macon truck accidentsBibb County
- Savannah truck accidentsChatham County
- Athens truck accidentsClarke County
- Sandy Springs truck accidentsFulton County
- South Fulton truck accidentsFulton County
- Roswell truck accidentsFulton County
- Johns Creek truck accidentsFulton County
- Warner Robins truck accidentsHouston County
- Albany truck accidentsDougherty County
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