Hawaii Semi-Truck and Tractor-Trailer Injury Accident Lawyers
If you’ve been injured in an Hawaii semi-truck accident, Dr. Brad Bradshaw’s team of experienced lawyers can help you.
Undefeated semi-truck accident attorney
Dr. Brad Bradshaw is an undefeated semi-truck injury trial lawyer who works with the best Hawaii injury lawyers and local attorneys who have been thoroughly vetted by our team.
Dr. Bradshaw is also a licensed Hawaii physician and surgeon who trained in trauma surgery at the Queen’s Medical Center, and also worked at Kuakini Hospital. Hire Dr. Bradshaw to help you, and if needed, we can find the right allied trucking attorney in rural Hawaii or one of the following cities: Urban Honolulu, East Honolulu, Pearl City, Oahu suburbs and outlying areas, plus Hilo, Maui, Kuai, and the other islands.
If you’ve been in a wreck or accident caused by a semi-truck or tractor-trailer, Brad Bradshaw’s law firm can evaluate your case and help you by putting together a quality team for you at a low fee to maximize your recovery.
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If you’ve been injured in a semi-truck or tractor trailer accident in Hawaii, Dr. Bradshaw’s legal team can help you. Call now or get started with a Free Case Review.
Local Hawaii Trained Surgeon and a Trial Lawyer
Dr. Brad Bradshaw was trained in trauma surgery at the University of Hawaii Integrated Surgical Residency Program at the Queen’s Medical Center. He can understand your injuries and future medical needs in a way not possible with typical lawyers. He can also explain to the insurance company your needs for additional care and money that can help your case. Plus, his medical expertise allows him to find and talk with medical experts at a level far above standard practice.
Fully Vetted Semi-Truck/Tractor-Trailer Injury Lawyers in Hawaii
We take the guesswork out of finding a quality, successful semi-truck/tractor-trailer injury lawyer in Hawaii. We research, find and partner with semi-truck/tractor-trailer injury trial lawyers who have proven success and knowledge in these accident cases, both in settlements and litigation. When we’ve vetted the attorneys available, we drill down deeper to find the best option based on your location in Hawaii. So, you have a team highly focused on the needs of your case. As part of our vetting process, we look for semi-truck/tractor-trailer Injury lawyers who have already been successful in similar cases. You don’t want a lawyer “learning” with your case. You want a team that already knows what they are doing and has done it successfully before..
Results
Nothing proves success like results. We keep track of the results of our allied Hawaii lawyers and can provide you with that information, including settlements and verdicts. Insurance companies keep these lists as well and often have more respect for, and sometimes pay much larger settlements to, lawyers with a track record of large verdicts and settlements in Hawaii. We always match you and your case to the right lawyer with proven success.
Reliability
With us, your team is here for you literally 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. We know how important fast answers are in emergency situations, so we answer our phones all hours of the day and night. We stay on top of your case and move ahead as expeditiously as possible.
Our semi-truck law process
In Hawaii, Dr. Bradshaw’s medical-legal team allies with experienced and proven semi-truck and tractor-trailer lawyers who are members of the Hawaii Association for Justice.
Our firm and lawyers have obtained trucking settlements and verdicts ranging from $1 million to several million dollars—even up to a $65 million judgment. The facts of your semi-truck injury case in Hawaii will determine our fee, but often it is only 25%. Our goal is getting more money in your pockets.
Dr. Brad Bradshaw’s Law Firm and our allied lawyers have hundreds of verdicts/settlements against semi-truck companies, truck drivers, and trucking brokers. Some of those include:
$65 Million Judgment
Semi-Truck Wreck Injuries
A semi-truck crashed into a car stopped in traffic—the vehicle was occupied by an older married couple and their young granddaughter. The tractor-trailer killed all occupants of the vehicle. The truck driver who crashed into the car was over his hours of service and in violation of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Regulations. Reports stated he never slowed before crashing into the stopped vehicle.
$8.3 Million Settlement
Semi-Truck Wreck Injuries
A trucker crossed the center line and impacted a vehicle operated by a mother who was transporting her three-month-old. The child suffered a traumatic brain injury.
$7.5 Million Settlement
Semi-Truck Wreck Injuries
A semi-truck hit cattle wandering in the roadway. The truck swerved and collided with a vehicle stopped on the side of the road. The client suffered a spinal cord injury with complete paralysis.
$4.5 Million Settlement
Semi-Truck Wreck Injuries
A semi-truck was making a turn into a parking lot when it struck a pedestrian. The pedestrian was caught under the axle of the truck and dragged for 50 feet. The plaintiff sustained multiple fractures and underwent numerous surgeries.
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Why Injury Law USA for my Hawaii semi-truck/tractor-trailer accident?
You should choose our unique medical-legal team for your semi-truck or tractor-trailer accident in Hawaii because our goal is maximizing your recovery, both gross recovery and the net to you. We have multiple approaches to accomplish maximum recovery.
First, we understand the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations, which are a complex and comprehensive set of rules and regulations that govern the truckers, the trucking companies, and the insurance companies. A lawyer with in-depth knowledge in this area can greatly increase a person’s financial recovery, sometimes by several hundred thousand dollars to millions of dollars.
Secondly, Dr. Bradshaw is a licensed physician and surgeon, and the entire team understands the importance of explaining the medical injuries to the insurance company (and jury in rare circumstances) in a way that emphasizes the need for compensation.
Thirdly, we aim for a lower fee than the common industry standard of 1/3 to 40%. Our starting fee for early settlements is almost always 25%.
Lastly, our experience handling numerous semi-truck/tractor-trailer cases with million-dollar and multi-million-dollar results tells the insurance company we know how to win, and win big! In fact, Dr. Bradshaw has never lost a semi-truck case. Here are just a few examples of where the experience and knowledge have paid off for clients, and one example of the low fee in a personal injury case:
Broker liability is a new form of recovery. Most lawyers are either unfamiliar with this recovery or are completely inexperienced handling the cases. Attorney Dr. Bradsha recently helped a family increase their recovery from $1 million on the basis of insurance to a total recovery of $11 million based upon Broker Liability. Dr. Bradshaw has taught lawyers throughout the United States how to handle Broker Liability cases.
A semi-truck wreck caused the death of a man in a passenger car, after which the insurance offered the attorney handling the case $1 million. The attorney called Dr. Bradshaw, asked for our help, and we were able to find an additional $1 million in hidden insurance the company did not tell the first lawyer about. We were able to settle the case for the total of $2 million going to our client.
When an injured party was told the most they could get for their case was about $350,000, they fired their attorney and hired our firm instead. On behalf of our client we rejected the lower offers, took the case to trial, and obtained a verdict for our client for $2.4 million dollars.
Dr. Bradshaw, because of his training in medicine and surgery, knew to have one of the best spinal surgeons in the world evaluate a client who had been rear-ended by another truck driver, resulting in a back injury. The insurance company initially offered $150,000, but armed with the additional medical information, and with our firm’s experience in trucking cases, we were able to settle the case for our client for just under $1 million.
A client was severely injured in a personal injury case. The case was settled for $25 million and our fee was only 25%. Compared to lawyers who charge 40%, our low fee put an extra $3.75 million into our client’s pocket.
When our team works with attorneys in Hawaii, we pay them out of our fee. We guarantee our clients NO hidden or extra fees, EVER. The contract will set out the total fee clearly.
What should I do if I've been injured?
Seek Medical Care: Continue seeking medical attention with health care specialists. In some cases, Dr. Bradshaw can help find a top health care clinic or physician. This has included Craig Hospital for spinal cord and brain injuries and physicians performing osseous integration for amputees, for example. Not only is medical care important for your health, both insurance companies and juries are more likely to believe a person is severely injured if they seek out ongoing medical care. A large time gap between the accident and seeking treatment will negatively affect your injury claim.
Take Photographs: Photographs are a top priority when it comes to building evidence for your case.
It is important to take photographs of all property damage. Once your vehicle is destroyed, evidence proving the severity of the impact is lost
Keep Documentation: Keep documentation of all your medical providers. Juries and insurance companies believe injured people will attend appointments if they are truly injured. You should only miss follow-up appointments for a good reason (if you do miss for a good reason, keep documentation) and keep all documentation of follow-up appointments. This is crucial when it comes to demonstrating how an injury has affected your quality of life. Failure to attend or keep documentation explaining missed appointments and follow-ups can result in the court reducing your money recovery for failure to “mitigate” your damages.
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What kind of Injuries are covered under semi-truck accident law?
Dr. Brad Bradshaw’s Law Firm works hard to ensure recovery for all injuries and damages incurred during the accident. We focus on economic recovery for things like medical bills, lost wages, future medical care, and anything else that can be put down on paper with a figure. Non-economic recovery is for pain and suffering, loss of companionship, loss of enjoyment in life, and other more abstract damages that greatly impact your life.
When should I hire a Dr. Brad Bradshaw's Law Firm truck injury lawyer?
The more quickly you bring on an attorney the better off you will be in your case. Trucking companies are able to begin destroying GPS data evidence just 7 days after the accident and after 6 months, federal law allows them to destroy logbooks. This evidence is often proof of illegal activity in instances of accidents.
More than just a car wreck. Many inexperienced semi-truck injury lawyers think of semi-truck/tractor-trailer cases as “big” car wreck cases. Nothing can be further from the truth.
We always emphasize that these large trucks are subject to special rules and regulations, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Rules (FMCSRs), governing interstate trucking cases. Knowledge of these laws is critical in maximizing the gross money recovery. It is also essential to know that specific regulations govern the driver, the trucking company, the broker, and the insurance company; this is why you want to hire lawyers who know and understand the complex rules.
Knowledge of the FMCSRs can significantly increase your case’s value. For example, these rules allow trucking companies to destroy records BEFORE the actual statute of limitations expires. Worse, in as little as seven days, trucking companies have the potential to destroy GPS tracking records. Logbooks can be destroyed 180 days after a wreck. A quality trucking lawyer who is hired early can send a “spoliation/preservation” letter to the trucking company requesting they preserve any records. This letter could potentially hold them accountable for any destruction that occurs after they receive it—legally called an “adverse inference.” An adverse inference may allow your legal team to argue in court that the only reason the trucking company or driver would destroy evidence is because it would have been bad for them.
Dr. Brad Bradshaw, undefeated in semi-truck cases, has taught other lawyers throughout America—including Hawaii lawyers—about FMCSRs as well as other aspects of semi-truck/tractor-trailer injury cases. Trucking lawyers across the United States elected Dr. Brad Bradshaw as Chairman of America’s Trucking Litigation Group. America’s Trucking Litigation Group and its parent group, the American Association for Justice, have members throughout the United States.
Dr. Bradshaw’s legal team can work with, or find you, a qualified Hawaii trucking attorney with proven success. Once you decide to hire our team, we will immediately start investigating your claim and determining liability, insurance coverage, and much more. If you don’t already have it, we can then obtain items such as police reports, highway patrol crash reports—including the entire file with photographs if they exist.
Moving forward, we contact witnesses and possibly hire an accident reconstructionist to take pictures and measurements of the accident scene, all to help strengthen your claim and recovery against the trucking insurance company. Our team and our allied Hawaii attorneys have experience investigating semi-truck/tractor-trailer injury wrecks and ensuring you are aware of all legal rights you have.
