Houston Personal Injury Attorney Steve Lee answers your questions regarding car accidents, truck accidents, DWI accidents, construction accidents, offshore accidents and refinery and industrial accidents. We represent personal injury and accident victims throughout Texas.
When truck accidents result in injuries, it’s not uncommon for the transportation company’s insurance carrier to make a settlement offer. Before you agree to it, ensure that you’ve secured the best possible recovery. Low Settlement Offers Insurance companies want to…
When you read about trucks and trucking companies receiving safety violations, it is difficult to know what this would entail unless you have an extensive knowledge of the industry. Does it mean that the truck is inherently dangerous? Possibly. Trucks…
We’ve all seen emergency response vehicles like fire trucks and ambulances racing toward an emergency call—more likely, we heard them first, then saw them. These large vehicles, sirens blaring, lights flashing, and horns honking, seem to defy all rules of…
Just like your body, your lungs can only take so much. When a truck accident caused a few of your ribs to break and then pierce your lungs, you knew that recovery would be a process. You didn’t expect to…
Speed governors, or Electronic Control Modules (ECM), are an interesting topic in the trucking industry. Many trucking companies already equip their trucks with these governors to limit their trucks’ top speeds, and the United States Department of Transportation mentioned last…
Most people do not like driving next to huge tractor-trailers on the highway. Maybe it is simply because of the vehicle’s size, or maybe it could even be a bit of fear, but nearly everyone will admit to avoiding these…
While the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) currently allows truck drivers to use hands-free mobile devices, the rules may be changing soon. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is pushing the FMCSA to reevaluate its rules regarding truck drivers…
We wish we could give you a more definitive answer, but unfortunately, there is no real average amount of time that a truck accident case takes to resolve. They are typically more complicated than accidents that just involve passenger vehicles…
