Results Matter – With deep transportation industry knowledge and a highly strategic and aggressive approach, our experienced team drives matters quickly and efficiently to minimize business disruptions — and never hesitates to fight to protect our clients’ careers, businesses, and financial interests. We know that the stakes are high for these professionals, and we are dedicated to delivering favorable outcomes.
Understanding Issues Unique to the Industry
Representing transportation companies, their drivers, and truck owner/operators following serious accidents is complex work, and success requires an understanding of how modern transportation litigation operates.
The overzealous plaintiffs’ bar and the threat of “nuclear verdicts.” Attorneys representing plaintiffs in truck accidents tend to aggressively pursue their clients, using billboards and creative legal strategies. They work to extend liability as far as possible — sometimes to companies wholly unrelated to the accident in question — in order to achieve the “nuclear verdicts” they view as a big payday. Our team understands these tactics and risks, and builds corresponding, strategic defenses to prevent our clients from becoming a target.
Complex liability. These accident cases can involve complex liability issues with plaintiff’s attorneys constantly pushing the bounds of the law to extend liability well beyond any involved parties via double brokering or third-party logistics claims or even attempting to create new causes of action. Plaintiff’s attorneys often try to push non-commercial vehicles into commercial standards to increase liability exposure and will claim every fender bender justifies a gross negligence assertion and punitive damages. We have significant experience with these and many other scenarios, and we are prepared to thoughtfully advise our clients, helping them fight back with equally aggressive defenses.
Damages. Most cases today are litigated and tried based on medical bills and expenses that do not reflect the marketplace. Our team is dedicated to releasing the hot air from these bills and expenses so that cases can be litigated and tried based on reality.
Protecting Your Bottom Line and Reputation. We understand that clients need to resolve matters quickly to keep their businesses on track and prevent spiraling insurance costs that threaten their livelihood. Drivers deserve to have their reputations protected from the unfair and often malicious claims made against them. A company and its drivers should not be forced to roll over just because anyone is allowed to file a lawsuit. We defend all our clients with these goals already baked into our overall strategy.
Our Philosophy
Defending Transportations Claims in today’s industry requires an aggressive and creative approach to prevent clients from becoming a target and to prevent them from being viewed as an ATM for anyone willing to bring suit. We have extensive experience handling federal and appellate-level transportation defense cases, and are prepared to keep fighting for our clients until we obtain a favorable result. Based on this experience, we bring a total case strategy to the table for both the trial and appellate levels so that issues like individual judges and perceived plaintiff-friendly venues are not the end of the conversation regarding case value.
