Dangerous Myths about Iowa Truck Accident Claims

One of the unique things about a truck accident is that trucking companies typically respond to news of a crash by immediately sending out a team of investigators and lawyers to the scene of the accident to start building their defense. If you are injured in a truck crash, you cannot assume that overworked police or state patrol officers will take the time to discover the whole truth about what happened. Why? Because the burden to produce evidence is ultimately on the injured motorist.

Under Iowa law, a truck accident victim who wants to be compensated for an injury must be able to prove:

• That the truck driver was negligent
• That the truck driver’s negligence caused harm to the truck accident victim
• The amount of the truck accident victim’s harms and losses

If the truck accident victim cannot prove any of one of the above three elements in a court of law, he or she is not entitled to compensation. That means the burden of proving everything – from identifying important witnesses at the accident scene to providing documentation of all injury-related harms and losses – falls on the truck accident victim.

If a truck wreck results in a serious injury, someone acting on behalf of the injured motorist needs to make sure that all necessary photographs are taken, all important records (like the truck driver’s driving logs) are preserved and that all eye witnesses are interviewed. Truck accident cases are lost every year because the injured person believed that a ticket against the truck driver was enough to get compensation.

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