A FedEx box truck backing out of a loading zone on 21st Street in Tulsa needs only about four seconds to clear a parking space, and in that narrow window a driver who skips a mirror check can put a pedestrian on the pavement with a broken wrist instead of just a scraped bumper. Multiply […]
$750,000 is the federal minimum liability insurance a motor carrier must carry to haul general freight in interstate commerce, and that number has not moved since 1980 even as medical costs and vehicle values have climbed for decades (minimum insurance). For a Tulsa, Oklahoma family facing hospital bills after a collision with an 80,000-pound rig, […]
Federal law requires most interstate trucking companies to carry at least $750,000 in liability insurance, yet many injured drivers still assume a semi truck accident settlement is valued the same way as an ordinary fender-bender claim with a passenger car. That assumption is wrong, and treating a truck wreck like a routine car accident can […]
A loaded 18-wheeler weighing up to 80,000 pounds rear-ended four vehicles stopped in traffic on Interstate 44 near downtown Tulsa last winter, and the first question every injured driver asked afterward was the same one that brings most people to this page: semi truck hit my car, who do I sue, the driver or the […]