Our Practice Areas
 |
||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
Vehicular Accidents
Vehicular accidents are often the cause of serious or catastrophic injuries. Frequently, such accidents are the result of driver or operator error, but sometimes they may be the result of the defective design or manufacture of the vehicle or one of its component parts.
Injuries in a vehicular accident may be enhanced or aggravated because of the failure of the vehicle manufacturer to make the vehicle “crashworthy” in the event of an accident. A vehicle manufacturer may be negligent in designing a dashboard which includes hard and protruding handles or knobs which aggravate the occupants’ injuries in the event of an accident, or by placing the fuel tank inside the occupant compartment, thereby increasing the likelihood that the occupants will be severely burned in the event of an accident. Railroad companies may increase the likelihood of accidents by failing to provide automatic crossing protection at intersections such as flashing lights or gates. Trucking companies may cause injury by forcing their drivers to drive an excessive number of hours or by failing to properly secure vehicle loads or by failing to properly inspect a vehicle’s brakes before the beginning of a trip.
The lawyers at Marks, Balette and Giessel have represented a number of clients in a variety of different vehicular accidents. These include automobile accidents, auto-truck collisions, auto-train collisions and aircraft crashes. In the process, we have worked with law enforcement personnel, accident-reconstructionists, emergency medical personnel, doctors and nurses, engineers, life-care planners, vocational rehabilitation experts and economists to prove who or what was at fault in causing the accident and the nature and amount of the damages that our clients suffered.
