There are many regulations from The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) that apply specifically to commercial drivers who are driving across the country. One of these regulations that is a current “hot topic” across the country are drivers who can’t proficiently speak English.

The Federal Trucking Industry is regulated by what’s called The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The FMCSA has a set of regulations that govern motor vehicle drivers and the carriers that employ them. Those are called the FMCSR – Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.

At Willis, Willis & Rizzi, what we like to tell clients who say they have a stack of mailers and phone calls is, “you didn’t get any of that from us.” Clients ask us why we don’t do that, and our response is we have been fortunate enough that we don’t have to.

Here at Willis, Willis & Rizzi we meet with many clients who haven’t followed the necessary steps one should take after having been in an accident. These steps involve:
• Call 911
• Get checked out by EMS
• Go to the emergency room if you feel you have any injuries
• File a police report
• Document your accident, take your own photos and videos of the vehicles, the scene and the people involved
• Notify your insurance company
• Contact a personal injury attorney who can help you with your case.

In personal injury cases, all attorneys work on a contingency fee where the attorney or law firm only gets paid if the case is won or settled and there is a recovery. This fee is very similar from attorney to attorney, or law firm to law firm. So, consider this – if you had your choice to eat out for dinner, and you could go to the best restaurant in town, or the fast food restaurant down the street, and the cost for the meal at the end of the evening would be the same, where would you decide to go?

If you have been injured in a car accident, you need a personal injury attorney, and you should not delay in researching attorneys and deciding on hiring one. The longer you wait, the more time the insurance companies have to make behind-the-scenes decisions that often hurt your personal injury claim.

Around our law office at Willis, Willis & Rizzi we talk frequently about servicing the client and it is truly the mission here! It means a lot to us when someone calls and they have never had an attorney before, they have never heard of our firm before but their brother or best friend or neighbor speaks highly of us.

At Willis, Willis & Rizzi in our roles as truck accident attorneys, we look at the case in a much broader way that goes beyond the injuries in the case. There is the injury, and there is what happened before the injury, what led to the accident even happening in the first place. We feel that what happened before the injury adds value to the trucking accident claim.

At Willis, Willis & Rizzi we have handled many personal injury cases involving commercial vehicles even when our clients didn’t realize the driver that hit them was operating on behalf of their employer.