Whenever anyone is injured in a serious or fatal truck accident, the injured party or their family may be eligible for monetary compensation upon a showing that the semi-truck driver’s negligence was the cause of the accident and of their injuries. In some cases, the trucking company can also be named as a party to the lawsuit.
These truck accident lawsuits require an injured party prove four main elements:
- That the truck driver owed the accident victim a duty of care;
- That the truck driver violated that duty of care by some action or failure to take a required action;
- That the truck driver’s violation of the duty he owed to the plaintiff caused the plaintiff’s injuries; and
- That the plaintiff suffered some identifiable injury.
The first and last element are generally easily met. However, the second and third elements may involve significant litigation in some cases, especially where the semi-truck driver claims that he was not at fault for the accident and that it was some other event that caused the accident victim’s injuries.