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Were you recently injured in a traffic accident involving an 18-wheeler or another type of large truck in Richmond Heights, Missouri? Did the accident happen because the truck driver or the trucking service violated important federal safety regulations? Call Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers. As a victim, you have rights. This can include the ability to demand financial accountability for the costs of your medical care, a sudden loss of income, and trauma you’ve suffered along the way. Our Richmond Heights truck accident lawyers can help you maximize your recovery.
Since 2007, Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers has provided a voice for injury victims and families in Richmond Heights and across the state of Missouri. Led by a former insurance defense attorney with more than 21 years of experience, our law firm has been instrumental in recovering millions of dollars from insurance companies, employers, manufacturers, and transportation services after life-changing accidents.
Now, you can get our award-winning legal team in your corner, too. Contact our law office in Richmond Heights, MO, at (314) 932-1066 today to get started. There’s no charge for your initial case review.
How Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers Help Victims of 18-Wheeler Accidents in Richmond Heights, MO
If you want to force the case results you deserve after a truck accident in Richmond Heights, MO, you’ll need to put an experienced legal advocate in your corner. That’s why you shouldn’t hesitate to call our Richmond Heights personal injury lawyers.
At Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers, we spent years defending the very companies we challenge head-on today. We know their strategies and playbooks well and, in turn, understand the keys to success. Our client-focused representation, in-depth knowledge of insurance industry practices and trucking regulations, and clear track record of success are part of the reason why we’ve been recognized by The National Trial Lawyers, The American Association for Justice, and the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys.
When you become our client, you’ll have the time you need to focus on your recovery while our law firm handles your truck accident case from start to finish including:
- Investigate your truck accident
- Obtain key evidence during discovery including truck black box data, dashcam footage, truck driver logs and records, communications between the truck driver and their employer, cell phone records, truck maintenance records, trucking service hiring and training policies, property damage, and medical records
- Interview the truck driver, eyewitnesses, employees of the trucking service, and other parties with relevant information about the crash
- Identify the best way to navigate claims of contributory negligence that might be raised by the defense
- Calculate the value of your personal injury case
- File your truck accident lawsuit with the local St. Louis County court clerk and/or the at-fault party’s insurance company
- Actively seek a meaningful settlement offer during negotiations
- Answer any questions you have throughout the claims process and help you make an informed decision about accepting or rejecting any settlement offers you receive
- Taking your truck accident lawsuit to trial, if necessary, to fight for better case results
Truck accidents are expensive. You deserve to get legal assistance without having to worry about added costs. Our Missouri truck accident lawyers in Richmond Heights handle claims on a contingent basis. Pay nothing for our help unless we recover compensation for your truck accident case.
Contact our law office serving Richmond Heights today to learn more and set a time for your free consultation.
What Causes Most Semi-Truck Accidents?
The more a vehicle weighs and the faster it travels, the more damage it can do when it’s involved in a motor vehicle accident. Needless to say, trucks, which weigh 20 to 30 times more than most passenger vehicles, can cause irreparable harm in a collision. Unfortunately, most truck accidents can be avoided but happen due to truck driver or trucking service negligence.
Some of the most commonly cited causes of truck accidents include:
- Violations of FMCSA safety regulations, such as driving in excess of hours of service limitations, inadequate truck maintenance, substance abuse, failing to perform pre or post-trip inspections, and hiring unqualified drivers
- Speeding, unsafe lane changes, tailgating, reckless driving, and other acts of aggression at the wheel
- Blind spot errors
- Braking errors
- Using a cell phone while driving a truck or engaging in other forms of distracted driving
- Failing to yield the right of way
- Wide right-hand turns
- Illegal turns
- Unsafe passing
- Running red lights or stop signs
- Vehicle malfunctions and defects
- Unsecured or unevenly loaded cargo
Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers will launch a full-scale independent investigation into your truck accident to get to the bottom of how and why it happened. When the cause is clear, we’ll work hard to get compensation from those at fault.
Who’s Liable For a Richmond Heights Truck Accident?
In Missouri, anyone who contributes to a car accident with a large truck can be liable including a:
- Truck driver
- Trucking service that employed the driver and/or owned the tractor-trailer
- Driver of a passenger car, motorcycle, bus, or another vehicle on the road
- Bicyclist or pedestrian
- Manufacturer of a defective vehicle or vehicle component
- Property owner
- Freight broker
- Cargo owner
- Government agency
At the end of the day, the trucking company, its insurance carrier, and other liable parties will go to great lengths to deny responsibility for a wreck and sidestep liability for resulting injuries or deaths.
Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers will be there to make sure your rights are exercised to the full extent of the law and that those responsible for your truck accident are held fully accountable. We have the resources and experience needed to help. Don’t hesitate to call us to get started today.
What Damages Can Be Awarded to a Richmond Heights Truck Accident Victim?
Following a jackknife accident, an underride accident, a truck rollover, or a squeeze-play accident in Richmond Heights, you’ll likely experience significant changes to your physical health, financial stability, and emotional well-being. Fortunately, you can seek compensatory awards, including economic and non-economic damages, from a liable party.
Our Richmond Heights truck accident lawyers will help you pursue compensation for:
- Medical bills
- Lost wages
- Disability
- Diminished earning capacity
- Property damage
- Rehabilitation
- Funeral expenses if a truck accident is fatal
- Pain and suffering
- Disfigurement and scarring
- Reduced quality of life
- Loss of consortium
- Embarrassment
- PTSD
Punitive damages might also be available if your truck accident lawsuit moves forward to trial in St. Louis County. In these situations, a jury can award these additional damages to punish the trucking service (or another defendant) if there’s clear evidence of malice or recklessness.
Can Shared Fault Affect My Missouri Truck Accident Settlement?
Yes. Missouri’s pure comparative negligence law applies to most civil truck accident claims. So, unless you’re a driver who is seeking workers’ compensation benefits after an accident in your own truck, shared fault will reduce your ability to recover compensation from a third party.
Specifically, your damages will be reduced proportionate to fault. If you’re assigned 20 percent of the blame for your commercial vehicle accident, your maximum settlement or jury award will be limited to 80 percent of its value.
Our truck accident attorneys in Richmond Heights, MO, will be ready to dispute claims of shared fault that, left unchecked, could significantly reduce your ability to get the compensation you deserve for your injuries.
How Much Money Can I Recover After a Truck Accident in Richmond Heights?
The amount of money you can recover after a truck accident will depend on the unique facts and circumstances of your case. If you were injured, a truck driver or trucking company might be responsible for your medical bills, lost income, pain and suffering, and other losses.
An experienced truck accident lawyer can help you recover money for all your injuries, including:
- Nerve damage
- Crushing injury
- Chest injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Quadriplegia injury
- Back injury
- Herniated discs
- Neck injury
- Thoracic injury
- Whiplash injury
- Concussion injury
- Traumatic brain injury
- Broken bones
- Eye injury
- Burn injury
- Leg injury
- Degloving injury
- Amputation injuries
- Catastrophic injury
Our personal injury attorneys in Richmond Heights represent injury victims and families who’ve suffered the wrongful death of loved ones in area truck accidents. Report your truck accident, seek prompt medical care, and then call our local law office for help right away.
What is the Filing Deadline For a Missouri Truck Accident Lawsuit?
Missouri requires most personal injury lawsuits to be filed within five years of the date of a truck accident. If you’ve suffered the wrongful death of a family member because a Richmond Heights truck accident was fatal, a three-year statute of limitations will apply from the date of death.
You must file your legal claim for damages before time runs out. When the statute of limitations expires, you will lose the ability to hold a trucking company or another at-fault party accountable for your damages.
Schedule a Free Consultation With an Experienced Richmond Heights Truck Accident Lawyer
Contact Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers if you or a loved one has been injured in a truck crash in Richmond Heights, Missouri. You deserve compensation, especially when you’re not responsible for the big rig accident.
Our Richmond Heights truck accident lawyers have over 21 years of experience and an undeniable ability to make powerful corporations pay life-changing sums to clients like you. When you’ve been wronged, we’re ready to get into the ring and fight to get you top results, too.
Contact our Richmond Heights law office today to get started. Your first case review is 100 percent free.
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Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers – Richmond Heights
1034 S Brentwood Blvd Penthouse 1-C
Richmond Heights, MO 63117
(314) 932-1066
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1034 S Brentwood Blvd Penthouse 1-C, Richmond Heights, MO 63117
Our Team
Meet Our Legal Team
Behind every case is a small team that knows the file inside and out. Our attorneys and staff work together so clients get clear communication, careful preparation, and direct access throughout the case.
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Areas of Practice
We represent victims injured in a wide range of accident and injury claims, including
Commercial trucks are usually insured for $1 million or more, and the carriers behind them have lawyers and investigators on the file the day of the crash. Trucking cases need immediate attention to preserve the evidence that wins them, including the driver's logs, the truck's electronic data, maintenance records, and the company's safety history. We handle these cases regularly and know what to look for.
Crashes involving delivery vans, work trucks, rideshare drivers on the clock, and other company vehicles often encompass multiple insurance policies and a fight over who was working for whom at the time. Untangling that is a meaningful part of the case, and it can substantially change what's available to the injured client.
Spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, severe burns, and traumatic amputations require careful calculation of future medical costs and other long-term care needs. We work with life-care planners and medical economists so the full lifetime cost of the injury is on the table, and not just the medical bills that have already come in.
Wrongful death claims are about more than money. Families need answers and accountability as much as they need financial security. We handle these cases with the seriousness they deserve and walk families through the legal and emotional landscape carefully.
Traumatic brain injuries don't always show up clearly on a standard ER scan, and adjusters routinely undervalue them despite the serious health implications. These cases require thorough medical documentation, the right specialists, and expert testimony to be valued correctly.
Pedestrian Accidents
Pedestrian collisions tend to produce severe injuries from impact alone. Liability is often clear, but carriers still push back on damages. We make sure the long-term medical, vocational, and personal impact is fully documented.
Motorcyclists face built-in bias from insurance adjusters who automatically assume the rider was at fault. We've handled enough of these cases to know how that argument gets made and how to push back.
We don't take every car accident case. We take the serious ones, such as those involving significant injuries, disputed liability, or commercial vehicles, as well as aggressive insurance carriers.
Construction injury cases often involve third-party liability, and OSHA issues, which further complicate matters. The investigation has to start quickly before site conditions change and evidence disappears.
Experienced representation for patients harmed by medical errors, misdiagnosis, surgical mistakes, and other forms of healthcare negligence.
Why This Firm Exists
James Eason didn't build this firm to be the biggest. He built it to be the kind of firm an injured person actually needs. We are small enough to stay personally involved, prepared enough to walk into court, and selective enough to take cases seriously. The model most personal injury firms run on is volume: take everything, settle most of it quickly, and then move on to the next injured client. That works for the firm, but it doesn't always work for the client. The lawyers who genuinely prepare every case for trial are the ones who get the best results, because the insurance carriers know the difference. That's our model here.
Steps to Proceed
Our Proven Process
We'll listen to what happened, ask the questions that matter, and tell you honestly whether we think the case is worth pursuing. If we don't, we'll say so.
Investigation
If we take the case, we get to work, investigating the police reports, medical records, and witness statements, preserving the evidence and working with experts as needed.
We build a documented claim and present it to the insurance carrier. Most cases settle here. If yours doesn’t, we keep going.
Litigation Preparation
If the offer isn't fair, we litigate. Because we've prepared the case for trial from the beginning, we're ready when it gets there.
Settlement, mediation, or verdict — we pursue whichever outcome reflects what your case is actually worth.
Professional Recognition
Honors & Professional Organizations
James Eason is a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and is on the Board of Governors. He also belongs to the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, National Trial Lawyers, American Association of Justice, and Mound City Bar Association
James has been honored with membership in the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, recognized as one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States. Membership is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts, awards and settlements. The organization was founded in 1993 and there are approximately 3000 members located throughout the country. Fewer than 1% of U.S. lawyers are members. Forum membership acknowledges excellence in advocacy.
Eason Law Firm has also been nominated as a finalist in the St. Louis Magazine A-List for Personal Injury Attorneys.
Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys
Missouri’s leading organization advocating for the rights of injured citizens and holding wrongdoers accountable through the civil justice system.
St. Louis Lawyers Association
One of the oldest and most influential bar associations in St. Louis, fostering legal excellence and community service across the region.
What You Get When You Work With Us
No Fee Unless We Recover
We offer standard contingency representation. You pay nothing upfront and nothing at all unless we recover
Handled by Our Team, Not Handed Off
Your case is managed by our legal team from start to finish. We do not pass clients from office to office or outsource case management.
Trial-ready preparation
Insurance carriers pay more when they believe the lawyer across the table is genuinely prepared to try the case
Honest case evaluation
If the case isn't strong enough to pursue, we'll tell you. If it's worth fighting, we'll explain exactly why.
Available when it matters
Serious injuries don't keep business hours. Neither do we.