Truck accident settlements vary on a case by case basis. Injury lawyer, Kenneth Berger, explains how different factors - such as lost enjoyment of life, lost wages, and punitive damages - can help you determine the value of your truck accident settlement. If you would like more information on what you can do after being injured in an 18-wheeler accident, visit our website, bergerlawsc.com, or you can call our South Carolina office at (803) 790-2800 to schedule a free consultation.
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What the settlement value of your semi truck accident case? My name is Kenneth Berger. I practice law here in Columbia, South Carolina, and I help people who've been injured in truck accidents across our state.
Now, the value of a semi truck accident case is based on a number of factors. The first is the severity of the harm that was caused. I'm not just talking about the total amount of medical bills - which can affect the value of a case - but more importantly, the overall impact an injury has had on the life you were living before the crash. Are you still able to enjoy the activities that you were passionate about or does your injury keep you from playing with kids, from cooking, even from driving to work? As we get to know you, we'll learn about the true impact and the depth of the impact from this injury and how it's impacted your life and therefore, how it affects settlement value.
Likewise, we want to take a hard look at how the accident has affected your ability to make a living. Whether that means you need to take a few weeks off to attend physical therapy and recuperate or if you might not be able to return back at all. Either way, South Carolina law dictates that the at fault party's insurance company compensate you for any wages that this accident has prevented you from making.
And next, punitive damages. These can be a big factor in a truck accident case. Punitive damages are meant to punish the reckless party for the harm they caused and to deter and discourage them from ever doing it again in the future - ever. Now, that said, punitive damages aren't available in every case. To get the punitive damages, we have to show the at fault party consciously disregarded your safety in causing the wreck. And that a lot times requires, again, a truck accident attorney with a lot of experience digging in deep to look at not only how the accident happened, but why it happened.
What were the factors that either the truck driver or the trucking company ignored that led to this crash. When there's a semi truck accident, you end up having a trucking company, a truck driver, and then generally you have a really big insurance company behind them all working to try to pay the least amount possible, regardless of the amount of harm that was caused.
We want to even the playing field. We want to make sure that you have an advocate in your corner - a champion in your corner – someone who's going to give voice to what you've experienced. Someone that's going to get to know you on a deep level and present that human story so that the insurance companies, the people who caused you harm, and potentially a jury, understands the impact that it's had on you. This is the way that you truly prove the value of a semi truck accident case in South Carolina, and this is what we're passionate about doing for our clients. We'd be honored to speak with you, to answer any questions you have, and to help you in any way we can.
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Columbia, SC 29206
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