Fresno Car Accident Lawyers

Who Pays Damages for Fresno-Area Car Accidents?

Most people think that if they get into a car accident caused by someone else, “insurance” will cover them. That’s not incorrect, but it’s also not the whole picture. When you are the victim in a car accident that’s not your fault, a whole range of people, companies, and yes, insurers, might have legal liability to you for damages. At Trust Guss Injury Lawyers, one of our missions is to uncover EVERY one of those parties to make sure our clients have the best chance of getting paid. Here are some of the parties who might have liability in a typical Central Valley car accident:

• Drivers. Obviously, drivers bear a lot of the blame in car accidents when they make bone-headed, irresponsible decisions that hurt others. Most of these drivers will carry insurance, but they might not carry ENOUGH insurance to pay for all of their victims’ injuries. That’s why it’s important to have a skilled attorney who knows how to research every potential source of payment.
• Employers. In the Central Valley, vehicles driven by farm and agricultural workers occupy a lot of space on the roads. Many of those workers lack insurance or the means to pay damages when they make a mistake behind the wheel. BUT, if they’re driving for work, their employers likely have legal liability for their actions. Those employers also probably carry insurance and have other ways to pay damages caused by their employees’ carelessness.
• Auto and auto part makers. Sometimes, an accident isn’t really a driver’s fault so much as the fault of the gigantic company that made the driver’s vehicle or its parts. Those companies OWE YOU A DUTY not to put dangerous, defective products on the road. If they ignore that duty and their products cause an accident that hurts you, then our job as lawyers is to make them pay. At Trust Guss Injury Lawyers, we’re not afraid to take on the biggest companies and the most expensive defense lawyers. That’s all in a days work for us.
• Local and state agencies. Roads are supposed to be designed, built, and maintained in a way that makes them safe for travel. But, what if they aren’t? What if the civil engineers the local government hired to design a road messed up? What if the road construction crew cut corners? What if a city manager knows about a dangerous road condition and slacks off on getting it fixed? Here’s your answer: with the right lawyer, you can take legal action to hold them accountable for your injuries.
• Healthcare and drug providers. Do you know what’s REALLY DANGEROUS? Giving people prescription medicines and not warning them about the side effects, or not checking to see if they take other medicines that could cause bad reactions. Every day across California, citizens get behind the wheel not realizing their medication makes them unfit to drive. Those people get into accidents. They hurt themselves and others. And, you know who should PAY? The medical provider who didn’t take care to prevent that situation from happening. These aren’t easy cases to prove, but the team at Trust Guss Injury Lawyers has the know-how to FIGHT THEM AND WIN.

These are just examples. There’s no single reason how or why car accidents happen. That’s why you need an experienced, aggressive lawyer on your side when you get hurt in one: to figure out EXACTLY who made bad decisions that led to you getting injured. It’s not always just one party. It could be a combination. And, it takes HARD WORK and SHARP THINKING by a SKILLED LAWYER to narrow in on the people or companies most likely to have liability to you and, just as importantly, most able to pay the damages they owe.