Indianapolis, IN Truck Accident Injury or Wrongful Death Claims Require Swift Legal Action by an Experienced Truck Accident Lawyer
If you or a family member or members have been involved in an accident with injuries or death caused by the negligence of a semi-truck or tractor-trailer big rig owner/driver, you should immediately seek the advice and legal counsel of a skilled injury attorney who has experience litigating complex truck accident claims. The unique aspects of trucking accident claims require immediate action from your legal team including a demand upon defendant(s) to preserve all evidence your lawyer deems essential to the litigation of your claim. Such evidence will likely include black box recovery from the commercial motor vehicle and the download of critical information recorded moments before and up to the time of the crash. Pair black box data with eye witness testimony and a picture begins to form. 
In addition, your injury attorney will seek to protect from spoliation owner/operator phone records and communications, personnel files, driver’s logs, drug testing reports and service records along with other valuable pieces of evidence critical to your case.
An experienced truck accident lawyer will immediately identify the responsible parties, physically investigate and photograph the scene of the accident, the approach to the scene and the physical surroundings at the scene and discuss the facts of the crash in depth with investigating officers. Your attorney may contact media for news reports and film, request 911 recordings and obtain police report(s) and photographs. If the accident occurred in an area served by businesses, a request for security camera files may be made upon surrounding businesses for the purpose of obtaining additional evidence. And a private investigator hired by your attorney will search for witnesses to the accident and contact each one personally to obtain their statement.
All of this and much more is coordinated and carried out by your lawyer and their legal team as soon as possible after the collision has occurred and before files can become lost, misplaced or corrupted as digital files sometime do.
Wrongful death caused by negligence of a commercial motor vehicle owner/operator
If a person has died from injuries received in a collision involving a commercial motor vehicle, all of the steps mentioned above will occur. But in addition, an estate must be opened for the deceased person and a representative appointed to act on their behalf in the ensuing litigation.
Our truck accident lawyers have the resources to finance your commercial semi-truck accident claim
Like medical malpractice claims, a truck accident claim requires financial resources to effectively pursue litigation of your claim. When you are seeking legal representation for your truck accident claim, you need to be sure that your attorney has the monetary resources required to hire a private investigator and to pay for the necessary expert witnesses that will write reports and testify on your behalf. If the parties involved are unable or unwilling to reach a reasonable settlement agreement, you can be confident that Ward & Ward Law Firm attorneys have the staff and the financial resources to take your claim to trial.
Your legal team, under the direction of your truck accident attorney in Indianapolis, IN, will devote many hours to your case while you or your loved one focus attention on recuperating from injuries sustained and all matters of health and well-being.
The attorneys at Ward & Ward Law Firm have more than 85 years of combined experience litigating claims involving commercial motor vehicles and have the financial resources to effectively and successfully represent you or your loved ones. Call Charlie Ward today at 317-639-9501 for an in-depth review and analysis of your claim.
