What You Need to Know About Truck Accident Claims in Alberta – 1-800-JUSTICE®

Transport trucks play a vital role in our economy, but their size and weight can lead to serious accidents on the road. If you are involved in a collision with a transport truck, it's essential to protect yourself by ensuring a thorough investigation is conducted to preserve evidence. This is particularly important as truck drivers may be reluctant to admit fault due to the impact on their careers. If injured, you may be eligible for accident benefits that cover treatment costs and income replacement for the first two years post-accident. Additionally, if the accident is not your fault, you have the right to file a lawsuit for compensation. For guidance on trucking accidents, contact Preszler Injury Lawyers at 1-800-JUSTICE.

We share roadways with large transport trucks that provide essential services, ensuring we all have access to food, clothes, holiday presents, and basically anything you can buy in a store. However, transport trucks can also cause some of the most serious accidents on our roadways due to their sheer size, weight, and speed. If you are hit by a fully loaded transport truck, the consequences can be fatal.

It is important to recognize that drivers of transport trucks want to protect their careers. They drive for a living and do not want accidents to impact their insurance or livelihood. This can create an incentive for them to not admit wrongdoing, even when the accident is their fault. Therefore, it is crucial to protect yourself if you are involved in an accident with a transport truck. This means conducting a thorough investigation to ensure that all evidence is preserved in support of your claim. Typically, this investigation will be handled by your law firm.

If you are injured, you also want to make sure that you access accident benefits. Accident benefits are available to almost all individuals injured in trucking accidents. These benefits will cover your physiotherapy, massage therapy, counseling, and other treatments for the first two years after an accident. If you are unable to work, you likely also have access to income replacement benefits, which will pay up to 80% of your income loss for the first two years following the accident. It is essential to ensure that your accident benefits application is filled out properly and submitted on time to guarantee that you receive the treatment and income replacement you need.

If the accident is someone else's fault, you also have the right to file a lawsuit to seek compensation for pain and suffering, income loss, medical expenses, and out-of-pocket expenses. This is particularly important because we know that trucking accidents result in some of the most severe incidents on our roadways. Our clients need to be protected in the short term by gaining access to treatment and, in the long term, by conducting a proper and thorough investigation to recover every single penny they are owed for pain and suffering, medical expenses, and income loss.

If you have questions about a trucking accident, call Preszler Injury Lawyers today at 1-800-JUSTICE.