The truck accident attorney team at Gair Gair Conason Rubinowitz Bloom Hershenhorn Steigman Mackauf says it has litigated trucking crashes for over a century from its Manhattan base, handling matters across New York Metro and New Jersey while offering free initial consultations.
The firm says it represents victims and families in a wide range of matters, including dump trucks, garbage trucks, big rigs, tractor trailers, semi trucks, cargo trucks, tow trucks, fuel trucks, concrete trucks, box trucks and sweeper trucks and related cases.
The firm explains that consultations are typically free because attorneys work on a contingency fee basis, with fees commonly around thirty three point three three percent of any recovery, which means fees vary with the amount recovered for a client.
The lawyers describe a standard case approach that includes independent scene investigation, witness interviews, photographic documentation, obtaining surveillance video and hiring accident reconstruction experts to identify causation and liability.
The firm adds that thorough document collection is critical, including drivers logs, trip sheets, route schedules, time cards, manifests and any records prepared by or for the driver covering thirty days before an occurrence, plus inspection reports for the involved vehicle.
The firm also notes it pursues full damages for clients, including past and future pain and suffering, medical bills, physical therapy, at home nursing care and lost earnings, and it retains accountants and financial analysts to calculate lifelong economic needs.
Gair Gair lists several substantial recoveries it has won for clients, including a forty one million five hundred thousand dollar verdict for the family of a sanitation worker killed by a street sweeper and a twenty six million dollar settlement for a thirty five year old mother killed by a truck.
The firm further cites an eleven million seven hundred fifty thousand dollar cash settlement against a Japanese freight carrier, a ten million seven hundred seventy five thousand dollar recovery for a brain injury caused by falling tires, and multiple other multi million dollar outcomes.
Rising Truck Crash Totals And Private Garbage Truck Risks
Analyses cited by the firm and outside groups show truck crash fatalities increased significantly on a recent year over year basis, with a federal agency providing early national estimates of about five thousand six hundred ten deaths and noting a large rise compared with the prior decade.
The firm reports that in the state the most recent official statistics count eighty four deaths from truck crashes, and NYPD data show a peak monthly total of six hundred forty two truck accidents followed by other monthly counts reported at five hundred eighty five, five hundred eighty seven and five hundred seventy five.
The firm highlights that trucks pose particular danger to pedestrians and cyclists, and it notes data showing truck crashes are roughly twice as likely as car crashes to cause serious injury or death for those road users, with sixty seven percent of truck crashes involving pedestrians or cyclists resulting in serious injury or death.
The firm singles out private garbage haulers as a frequent source of serious crashes, citing an analysis by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer that found private garbage trucks were involved in seventy three serious crashes, including five deaths, over a recent two year span, while municipal sanitation recorded far fewer fatal events.
The firm invites anyone injured in a truck accident in or near New York City to contact the firm to discuss their case, and it states a disclaimer that results depend on each case's facts and that no specific outcome is guaranteed.
