Trucking Accidents

San Diego trucking accident attorneys
Types of trucking accident cases and Casey Gerry’s experience

For 60 years Casey Gerry's San Diego trucking accident attorneys have prosecuted serious trucking accident cases resulting in serious injury and wrongful death. Casey Gerry trucking accident lawyers handled a very serious accident on Highway 86 in El Centro where a truck crossed into the opposite lane, striking a school bus filled with children. Our trucking accident attorneys represented the parents of the children who died in the accident, and litigated against the truck, the tire manufacturer, and other defendants, including the State of California for a dangerous highway condition. Our trucking accident lawyers secured settlements for the parents.

In Anaheim, California a large truck pulled out in front of a young man driving his vehicle, and the collision resulted in his death. Extensive discovery and deposition testimony regarding the two vehicles’ speeds enabled our trucking accident attorneys to show that the large truck had pulled out unexpectedly in front of our client and caused the accident. We secured a significant recovery for the young man’s widow and their children.

In 2005, Casey Gerry's trucking accident attorneys represented a man who was seriously injured in the Palm Desert area. A twenty-one ton garbage truck backed over him in the Riverside County Landfill. We established that the operators of the truck were negligent because the truck did not have a working back-up device. We established further negligence because the truck failed to have a spotter to warn people of its backing up, and we showed that the defendants documented that the back-up alarm had been inoperable for over 58 consecutive days prior to our client’s injury. We secured a recovery for our client and also sought punitive damages because of the egregious failure to have the back-up warning device audible.

Over the years Casey Gerry has seen repeated cases of persons seriously injured or killed by trucks backing up when there was no warning device. In the case described above, Casey Gerry's trucking accident attorneys conducted extensive depositions of employees in the company and obtained numerous records to show the egregiousness of their negligence.

If you're hurt in a rollover, jack-knife, rear-end collision or other accident with a "semi" tractor-trailer, an experienced personal injury lawyer at Casey Gerry may be able to help.