Workplace Injuries: What’s Your Next Move? It’s no secret that truck driving is a highly dangerous profession. Injuries are often a result of everyday duties for thousands of truck drivers every year. It’s important to be aware of the options you have when it comes to your rights so you receive fair compensation and treatment [...]
A truck driver recently reached out to us and asked three questions: What is the difference between Workers Compensation and Personal Injury cases? Can you have both types going at the same time? How do you file a civil (Personal Injury) suit? These are important questions we often get from hurt truck [...]
Shoulder, elbow and wrist injuries (often referred to upper extremity injuries) are common among professional truck drivers. The injuries can be terribly painful and can make working as a professional truck driver impossible. For example, a trucker with a torn rotator cuff or nerve damage or impingement in the wrist or elbow may be unable [...]
On Thursday, February 26th Charles Buchanan, Hurt Trucker's lead attorney and editor of the Hurt Trucker blog, had the pleasure of speaking with many truckers and trucking advocates on Truth About Trucking's weekly live online radio show. Listen to internet radio with Aubrey Allen Smith on Blog Talk Radio The topic of discussion was "Truckers Rights [...]
Workers' Compensation can help truckers pay bills after an injury. We continue our series this week on “Paying Bills After an Injury” by discussing workers’ compensation benefits. Our last post in this serious gave an overview of the "no fault" workers' compensation system. This week we provide more information about the workers' compensation benefits [...]
Workers' Compensation can help truckers pay bills after an injury. We continue our series this week on “Paying Bills After an Injury” by discussing workers’ compensation as one of the options. In the coming weeks, we will post more detailed articles on the workers’ compensation process and benefits. In this two-part introductory post, we provide [...]
