Most employed people in Louisiana are only allowed to work so many hours at a time or in a given week. This is certainly true for truck drivers. Regulations have been put in place to help prevent fatigue-related truck accidents. Unfortunately, some find that drivers...
Dedicated To Helping Injured People
Dedicated To Helping Injured
People
Truck Accidents
Insurance settlements from truck accidents may be insufficient
Louisiana residents who have been injured or lost loved ones in collisions with commercial trucks may want to quickly settle with insurance companies in order to get some level of payment and just move on. However, the funds offered in insurance settlements may really...
Louisiana truck accidents: 1 injured in wreck
Police in Louisiana are looking for the semitrailer driver who caused an accident that left a woman injured. This incident occurred in mid-December in the Shreveport area. According to state laws, those responsible for truck accidents may be responsible for the losses...
Louisiana truck accidents: Trucker arrested following fatal crash
A young woman in Louisiana recently died in a crash with an 18-wheeler. The truck driver has been arrested and charged for his role in the incident. When fatal truck accidents happen, it is okay for surviving family members of the victims to seek answers and relief....
Unsecured cargo can cause truck accidents
It is not uncommon to see semitrailers on roads all around Louisiana. While this is a good thing for a number of reasons, these massive trucks are also very dangerous around which to drive. Truck accidents happen all too often, and sometimes the reasons that they...
Louisiana truck accidents: Semitrailer plows into several cars
Near the end of September, a semitrailer was traveling on Interstate 10 in Louisiana when it plowed into three cars. Several people were injured in the wreck. As is true for all truck accidents, this incident is being investigated by law enforcement officials....
Louisiana truck accidents: Dump truck accident injures 1
A Louisiana man recently required immediate medical attention following an accident involving a dump truck and a portable toilet. This incident occurred at the Louis Armstrong International Airport where there is currently construction of a new terminal underway. The...
Who can be held liable after a trucking accident?
Now that Labor Day weekend is behind us, it may seem that traffic levels will return to normal as most people return to their everyday lives. However, interstate commerce doesn’t stop because the holiday is over, and semi-trucks will continue to rumble across...
What causes truck accidents in Louisiana?
There are many trucks that travel throughout Louisiana bringing goods of all kinds to the state or out of the state to other states for sale. Trucking is a business, and for the drivers it is their job and also their livelihood. They are professional drivers and in...
Protecting victims’ rights after a truck accident
People rarely have a road to themselves in Louisiana. There are many other drivers on the roads at any given time and many different types of vehicles as well. Some of these vehicles are bigger than others. Semi-trucks tend to be some of the biggest vehicles on the...