Partial Fault Truck Accident

Answer:

In a lot of cases, figuring out who caused the crash or injury is pretty easy. Maybe someone slams into the back of you while you’re stopped at a stop light. Deciding fault in those kinds of cases is usually pretty simple.

Establishing who’s at fault for a Utah commercial truck accident can be way more difficult, however, especially when people start pointing fingers at each other.

In our system, there could be multiple at fault parties for a crash. Anyone involved in any way can share fault, even if he or she barely contributed to the accident.

You see, with commercial trucks, something that most people don’t understand is that when that big truck is driving down the road, it’s not just the driver or the owner of the truck that contributed to moving the truck. There’s a host of people sharing responsibility. There could be brokers, owners, drivers, safety companies, maintenance companies, and more. There might be two or three or four people who own or lease different parts of the same truck as it moves down the road. As such, it’s not uncommon for different parts of the same truck to be insured by different companies.

How do you sort out who’s at fault? In a Utah commercial truck crash, anybody who contributed to the crash can have some fault assessed to them, meaning they’ll have to pay for their portion of the crash.

This is where we come in. We have experience sorting through all the different pieces involved in a commercial truck crash. If you’ve been in a truck accident, call me for free. I’d love to answer any questions that you have.