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Truck Accidents

Experienced Truck Accident
Attorneys in Erie, Pennsylvania

Most truck accidents have very simple causes. For example, the pressure to make deliveries on time might cause someone to drive too fast or follow too closely behind other vehicles. That same pressure might make a driver choose to skip a mandatory rest or sleep break in favor of getting to their destination as soon as possible. Semi truck drivers have also been known to drive drunk or under the influence of illegal drugs. While trucking companies themselves are notorious for cutting corners on truck maintenance.

However simple the cause, truck accidents tend to be very complicated types of personal injury and wrongful death cases. The accidents often involve complex state and federal trucking industry regulations, multiple defendants and several different insurance companies.

In all cases, the need for experienced legal representation is great.

Truck accidents change lives. If you have lost a loved one or been seriously injured as the result a truck accident in western or northwestern Pennsylvania — put the more than 30 years of combined trial experience we have in the courts of this area on your side. For a free consultation, call or contact us in Erie and let us start changing the way you think about lawyers.

Committed to Obtaining the Compensation You Deserve

After a truck accident — grief over the loss of a loved one, painful injuries, medical bills, doctor appointments, not being able to work can make day-to-day living an almost overwhelming task. So much so, in fact, that you may be tempted to take the first offer you receive and start moving on with your life.

What's important to understand is that a quick and easy settlement with the insurance company will almost never be in your long-term best interest.

While our law firm will work hard to obtain the financial compensation you deserve as soon as possible — we want to assure you that we are committed to handling cases the right way. If that means trying the case to verdict in front of a judge or jury, that's just fine. In other words, we will not recommend that you accept an unfair settlement just to ensure that we get paid.

Schedule your free consultation by calling our law offices at 814-806-1171 or 888-524-2612 (toll free). You can also send us an e-mail at any time, day or night, and it will be forwarded directly to our Blackberries.

Lawyers at Rohde & Jennings, serve portions of northwestern and western Pennsylvania, including Erie County, Crawford County, Warren County, Venango County, and cities such us Erie, Meadville, Warren, Oil City, Franklin, Edinboro, North East, Kane, Girard, Fairview, Titusville and Corry. The firm also helps people who have bee injured in accidents on I-90, I-79, Highway 77, Route 6N and US Route 19.

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