Our injury attorneys are available to discuss your personal injury loss. Our law firm represents the victims of auto accidents, wrongful death, product liability and other types of personal injury losses in Tennessee. Call us today. Our lawyers will review and discuss your case for free. Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Call now, toll free today submit your case online with the form on the right of your screen.
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Accidents happen, as the saying goes, but in many instances an accident is caused by the negligence, carelessness or recklessness of some other party. A simple surgery may have gone terribly wrong…A drunk driver changes a life forever…A workplace accident hospitalizes the family breadwinner…The list goes on and on. When the unimaginable happens to you, our Personal Injury Lawyers are there to help. Our Law Firm doesn’t work for businesses, insurance companies, HMOs or other corporate entities: we work for real people in Tennessee with real problems caused by the negligence of others. The goals of our injury attorneys are simple: to ensure the rights of injured victims and families, punish and deter wrongdoers, and level the playing field with insurance companies.
Help Across Tennessee – Personal Injury Lawyers
Our Law Firm is staffed in order to help clients across the State. Our firm will review your case no matter where you live in Tennessee. Our injury lawyers are able to provide peace of mind and results to clients located throughout Tennessee. We focus our attention on serious personal injuries and tragic wrongful death claims.
Our injuyr attorneys handle all of our personal injury and wrongful death cases through a team approach, and are committed to providing a high level of service to each of our valued clients. We promote integrity, honesty and good old-fashioned personal service in our practice.
For further information about how our law firm can assist you, please contact us for a free initial consultation today.
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Tennessee Semi-Truck Crash Lawyers
Highway safety is an issue of great concern to most residents of Tennessee. In addition to personal injury and auto accident cases, our lawyers also handle accident cases involving trucking safety and trucking accidents. Semi truck and eighteen wheeler accidents present unique issues not necessarily associated with a typical motor vehicle accident. These differences include:
· Greater likelihood of serious injuries or deaths
· Negligent hiring and supervision claims
· Negligent maintenance claims
· Unique insurance coverage issues
· Governmental regulation
· Trucking records and Logs
With the explosion of trucks on Tennessee highways, accidents between cars, motorcycles, and semi-trailer trucks are on the rise. Truck accidents often occur when trucks are traveling in an unsafe manner or are loaded in an unsafe manner, causing injuries to other drivers.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) was formed in the early 1980’s in an effort to curb the unacceptable number of fatal truck accidents occurring on highways in Tennessee and across the nation.
Laws were enacted that prohibited truck drivers from having more than one license. By 1992, truck drivers were required to meet minimum national standards in order to operate a tractor trailer. Once a driver met these standards, he was issued a Commercial Driver’s License ( CDL).
Today, to help reduce fatal Tennessee truck accidents, each truck driver is required to be licensed in his state of principal residence with his driving record kept in a centralized computer for access by each state.
The new laws also required each state to adopt uniform testing standards for commercial drivers prior to being licensed. A CDL is required to operate the following vehicles:
any combination of vehicles with a gross combination weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the GVWR of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds;
any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver; and
any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
However, the following vehicle operators are NOT required to obtain a CDL:
farm equipment operators;
vehicles used to transport farm products, equipment or supplies to and from a farm;
vehicles used within 150 air miles of a farm;
vehicles not used in operations of a contract carrier; and
firefighting equipment operators, military vehicle operators, and recreational vehicle operators, if the vehicle is primarily used for personal use.
For certain vehicles, special endorsements are required. There are five possible CDL endorsements and one restriction, which require testing.
1. double/triple tractor-trailers
2. passenger vehicles
3. tank vehicles
4. semi-trucks carrying hazardous materials
5. combination tank and hazardous materials
6. vehicles with air brakes
Causes of Semi-Truck Accidents
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Act (FMCSA), considered the driving force behind the regulation of the trucking industry to reduce truck accidents, covers issues such as driver qualifications, emergency equipment, safe loading, alcohol, and drug usage and a number of other factors. Some of the most common causes of trucking accidents include:
We understand the unique legal and practical problems associated with 18 wheeler accidents and other truck crashes and have experience dealing with the issues that arise in such cases. Our goals include protecting the individual where litigation is necessary, but also providing resources to help educate the public when injuries are caused by the negligence or carelessness of trucking companies, in hopes of increasing road safety. Contact us today for further information. We offer free initial consultations and work on a contingent fee basis, which means that there is no fee unless we successfully resolve your case.
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Workers’ Compensation is a benefit that is provided by most employers in Tennessee. If you have suffered an injury that arose out of and in the course of their employment we can help. Work related injuries typically covered by workers’ compensation include:
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