Truck Accident Lawyers in Rockville, MD

Rockville Truck Accident Lawyers

Representing Victims of Semi-Truck & Tractor-Trailer Accidents in the DC Area

After being injured in a truck accident, you may find yourself facing growing medical expenses, missing time from work to recover, and experiencing mental anguish on top of the physical pain of a life-changing injury. If you were not at-fault for the accident, it is likely that you will be considered eligible to pursue compensation for these damages from the liable party.

The Rockville truck accident lawyers at Alpert Schreyer, LLC want to help you navigate the legal claims process. We truly care about the Rockville community because it is home to many of our team members. As such, we treat our clients as members of our own family, not as another case file. Our personalized, results-driven approach to legal representation has helped us recover millions upon millions of dollars for injured Maryland residents through personal injury claims.

Find out if you have grounds for a case — contact a Rockville truck accident attorney online today.

Who Can Be Held Accountable for a Truck Accident?

For truck accident claims, there are a few parties that may be held accountable for what happened: the truck driver, the trucking company that employed the driver, or the manufacturer, designer, distributor, or retailer of any defective truck parts that contributed to the collision.

A truck driver will be considered liable should they have committed any of the following negligent or reckless acts leading to the accident:

• Speeding
• Driving while fatigued
• Hauling oversized loads
• Ignoring traffic laws
• Ignoring industry regulations
• Cutting off other drivers on the road
• Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs

The trucking company may be held accountable if any of its policies, work practices, or the like caused the accident, such as:

• Requiring its drivers to work while fatigued
• Requiring its drivers to haul oversized loads
• Failing to ensure its trucks are serviced regularly
• Failing to adequately train its drivers

Other employees at the trucking company may also be held liable — such as a cargo loader, engineer, or shift manager — if their failure to follow procedure was the source of the accident.

When the primary cause of a truck accident was a defective part, the party responsible for putting that part on the market and into the truck will be held responsible. For instance, if a tire was defectively designed, then the product designer would be considered legally on the hook. In other cases, the manufacturer is to blame for letting a defective truck part slip through the cracks and make it into the consumer’s hands. These types of claims fall under product liability law, an area of practice in which Alpert Schreyer, LLC has much experience.