Case Breakdown: Truck Accident Case in Idaho, Unique Nuances/Challennges, How You Approached, and Settlement – Colton Schneider

A trucking case that I’ve worked on, a good example is one that we just worked on this last  year. It involved a very significant trucking collision that took place in southern Idaho. An individual working for a large scale dairy operation ran a stop sign. He hit our client  and caused catastrophic injuries in this matter.
Now when you’re working with a trucking collision,  it’s completely different in a lot of senses than handling your standard automobile  collision and the reason for that is there are specific rules that govern trucking companies,  that govern the operation of these vehicles, and both the drivers and the businesses that  run trucks need to abide by these rules. There’s also a lot at stake when you’re operating a major  vehicle. So you need to have experts involved. You may need to have reconstructionists involved. At  Feller & Wendt, LLC™, we’ve handled hundreds of trucking collisions and so we are very familiar  and very experienced in working with these type of experts and working on these types of  collisions. On the one I just referenced earlier, for example, we had at least four separate experts  that we’d retained in order to help pull data, reconstruct the collision, and establish the  violations of those rules I mentioned earlier.
The outcome of that case was two-fold. Not only were we able to recover a substantial monetary recovery for the injured individual,  but we also were able to effectuate some change. The trucking company had to modify as part of the  agreement some of the policies and procedures that a operated by in order to make sure that they were in compliance with the rules and that something like this doesn’t ever happen again.