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When a drunk truck accident occurs, you need to take steps to protect your rights and interests, and one of them is hiring a reputable law firm. At Goodman Acker, P.C., our drunk truck accident lawyer in Grand Rapids has helped several victims seek compensation from negligent truck drivers and trucking companies. We will carefully assess your claim and help you seek fair compensation.
After an accident involving a drunk truck driver, you might wonder who you can hold liable. Generally, the likely liable parties in a drunk truck accident are the truck driver or their trucking company.
The truck driver is the first possible liable party, because they were the one controlling the truck when the crash happened. The trucker will be considered impaired if they have a 0.04% blood alcohol content (BAC) or more. This will be the case whether the truck driver is visibly intoxicated or not, as they are already legally drunk. Therefore, if an accident occurs when the trucker is intoxicated, they will be deemed liable.
Aside from the truck driver and a trucking company, establishments that sell alcohol can also be held partly responsible for a drunk truck accident. Contrary to what some people believe, alcohol dulls the senses, and if a retail licensee sees an intoxicated truck driver and still sells them alcohol, they can be held partly liable under the Michigan Dram Shop law.
If you sustained severe injuries or suffered a disability or disfigurement in a drunk truck accident, you can file a lawsuit for damages. If your case is successful, you can receive economic and non-economic damages. Economic damages pay for the monetary losses incurred from the accident and are easily calculable.
However, Michigan is a No-Fault state, so fault does not always play a role after a collision. If your injuries are minor, you can apply for personal injury protection (PIP) benefits from your No-Fault insurance provider. It will cover all reasonable medical bills, a percentage of your lost wages, and all attendant care services. But fault comes into play when you sustain severe injuries, a disfigurement, or disability, and the courts will consider it when awarding damages when you file a lawsuit.
We work on a contingency fee basis, meaning we only get paid when we secure a favorable outcome. The fee is a percentage of the amount received as a verdict or settlement, usually between 33% and 40%.
If you or a loved one suffered severe injuries from a drunk truck accident, our Goodman Acker, P.C. team can help you. We will fight tirelessly to hold all the liable parties accountable and secure a favorable outcome. Call us at 248-286-8100 for a free case evaluation.
Barry J. Goodman has devoted his professional life to keeping courthouse doors open for victims seeking justice. Always a tireless advocate for his own clients, Goodman sees his responsibility as a Detroit personal injury attorney in a broader sense as well. [ Attorney Bio ]
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This young painter, Mrs. Sylvia Patricelli, met an American boy during the war and they are now married and living in Hartford, Connecticut. Mrs. Patricelli is hoping to hold soon her first exhibition of paintings in this country. She brought me some photographs of portraits and one portrait of a neighbor. All are interesting, so I look forward to seeing her exhibition in the near future.
Senator Wayne Morse, President Dodds of Princeton University, and Assistant Secretary of Defense Marx Leva, appeared on our television show Sunday afternoon and I was so glad that it was an interesting discussion, for we had a number of paraplegics from Birmingham Hospital, South California, in the audience.
These veterans are touring the country playing basketball games from their wheel chairs to prove that though you use a wheel chair there is a great deal you can do. Incidentally, if you can play basketball, you can hold down a job that requires sitting at a desk or a bench for a certain number of hours a day. So this trip may encourage some employers to hire paraplegics. These men have shown real courage and determination to lead useful lives and I hope they are getting some fun out of this tour.
Later I was visited by Dr. Elizabeth Meyer Spreckles, a social welfare worker in Germany. She brought up several points in connection with the occupation of Germany that seemed to me well worth considering.
One is that the shortage of housing in Germany is so great that it has caused very bitter feeling among German families who have to get along in a single room while they see their houses occupied by one American soldier's family. I wonder if it would not be possible to help Germany provide some employment for its two million idle workmen by building houses that could be used now by our soldiers and when they left, could be taken over by those needing new homes.
The second question was about the type of American movies shown in Germany. For the most part these are either crime stories or exaggerated luxury pictures. She says that after five months here it is evident that these movies do not present a true picture of American life but, nevertheless, that is the picture presented nightly to people in various parts of the world.
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