Truck accidents often, unfortunately, result in really severe injuries and in complicated facts of what happened because often the cases we handle you’ll have a truck involved in an accident with multiple vehicles and chain reactions, and so, there’s a lot to unpack there.
So, it takes longer, typically, to settle a truck accident than an ordinary just auto vo. Let’s talk about the severity of injuries first. Obviously, you could have some catastrophic injuries from a truck accident. And in that case, we deploy a team to make sure we fully assess what’s happened to you to make sure that we understand what your final state will be in terms of your permanent injuries.
We won’t know that maybe for a year after the accident, you might still be having surgeries during that period. And we’ve represented people who need a lifetime of care. So in that situation, we retain an expert who will model all of your costs, or, what we project will be your economic cost for the rest of your life for people with permanent injury.
That’s a very important step. We don’t try to resolve a case of serious injury until we develop all of that. So, I think you need to think about it for at least a couple of years after a severe injury from a truck accident.
