Truck collisions often lead to catastrophic injuries, as a car is no match for the size, speed, and power of a truck. A crash that involves a commercial truck, including dump trucks and tankers, carries a high likelihood of severe injuries.
In the aftermath of a crash with a truck, you might be in pain and unable to work while facing mounting medical bills and insurance companies that want to minimize your claim.
You don’t have to face these challenges alone. Let’s get your life back on track.
We know, because many of our lawyers used to work for them. Now, they use that insider knowledge to win for people like you.
Lots of law firms can “talk tough.” But can they deliver the outcomes? At Lowe Law Group, we are much more than just talk. We deliver results for our clients.
Our unique approach to truck accident law leads to bigger settlements and verdicts.
Our firm has something incredibly rare: A full-time physician on staff. Dr. Andrew Georgi is focused on litigation injury medicine. He and our medical team will evaluate your injuries with long-term recovery and litigation in mind. This gives your case the credibility it needs to win big.
Accident reconstruction is a big part of our playbook. Our forensic specialists rebuild exactly what happened when you were injured, proving liability and exposing any attempt by the insurance company or trucking company to shift blame.
Our record of accident case victories speaks for itself. When insurance companies see our name on a Grand Forks truck accident case, they know they’re better off settling or maximum amounts quickly.
At Lowe Law Group, there are no upfront costs. There is no hourly billing. You only pay if we win your case, which means you aren’t taking any risks when you work with us.
Your priority now is to heal. Ours is to win your case. We handle everything from the legal process to gathering paperwork and reviewing your medical treatment.
Let us listen to your story. We’ll provide a free, no pressure case evaluation.
Our team handles everything: the legal process, gathering paperwork, reviewing your medical treatment, and more.
We win your case and maximize your compensation or we don’t get paid, guaranteed.
In the first 30 days after signing with us, you have the right to end the agreement with no obligation to pay for any services rendered.
Insurance companies want you to settle fast before you know what your injury is really worth. We’ve seen too many people sign away their future for a quick check, only to learn their expenses were just beginning.
Before you say yes to them, talk to us. It might be the most valuable call you make in Grand Forks.
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The minutes after a truck crash are chaotic, and what you do in them can shape your entire claim. Make sure that someone calls 911 first. It’s important to get medical attention, even if you feel okay, because the adrenaline masking your pain right now wears off in a few hours and the symptoms that follow can be the serious ones.
Then, document everything you can. If you are able, photograph the vehicles, the road, the skid marks, the cargo, and the markings on the truck and trailer. Get the driver’s name, the trucking company’s name, and the USDOT number painted on the cab. Talk to witnesses and write down what they saw.
Here is the part most people do not know. A truck accident is not simply a bigger car accident. The trucking company’s insurer and its rapid-response team are often working the scene within hours, sometimes before you have left the hospital. Their job is to get ahead of your claim. The truck’s electronic control module, often called the black box, holds data on speed, braking, and hours driven, and that data can be overwritten or lost if no one moves to preserve it.
This is why you should talk to a Grand Forks truck accident lawyer before you give a statement to the trucking company’s insurer. Do not sign anything, and don’t agree to make a recorded statement. An attorney can send a spoliation letter that legally requires the company to preserve the black box data, the driver’s logs, and the maintenance records before any of it disappears. We step in early so the evidence that proves your case is still there when we need it.
In a typical car crash, it’s typical to only have to deal with one at-fault driver and one insurance policy. Truck cases are different, and fortunately, that difference often works in your favor.
A single semi crash can involve several responsible parties, including:
Sorting out trucking company liability in North Dakota takes investigation, because the parties involved often point fingers at each other to avoid paying. More defendants can also mean more available insurance coverage, which matters when injuries are severe and one policy would never be enough. A North Dakota commercial vehicle accident attorney who knows how to trace responsibility across all of these parties can find sources of compensation you would never uncover on your own.
Commercial trucks operate under a federal rulebook that ordinary drivers never have to worry about: the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, enforced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. When a carrier or driver breaks one of these rules, the violation can become powerful evidence of negligence in your case.
Here’s what you need to know:
When we pursue an FMCSA violations truck accident claim, we are not just arguing that a driver was reckless. We are also showing that a federal safety standard existed via the FMCSA, that it was broken, and that breaking it led to your injuries.
Fatigue is one of the most common and most dangerous causes of truck crashes. Unfortunately, when profit is on the line, unscrupulous commercial trucking companies will coerce their drivers into staying on the road far longer than is safe. That’s why there are rules about it. The government recognizes that without regulation, drivers may feel pressured to stay on the road as long as possible.
Under Part 395 of the FMCSA Hours of Service regulations, a property-carrying commercial driver generally may drive no more than 11 hours after 10 consecutive hours off duty and may not drive beyond the 14th consecutive hour after coming on duty. Drivers must also take a 30-minute break after 8 cumulative hours of driving without a qualifying interruption. Weekly limits also apply: drivers may not drive after 60 hours on duty in 7 consecutive days or 70 hours in 8 consecutive days, depending on whether the carrier operates every day of the week
Electronic logging devices are supposed to track this, but logs can be falsified or manipulated. We cross-check the ELD records against fuel receipts, weigh station data, GPS, and delivery timestamps to expose the gap between what the logbook says and what actually happened. That gap is often where the case is won.
A fully loaded semi can weigh 80,000 pounds, but a passenger car only weighs around 4,000. When those two collide, the physical reality of the crash leads to serious injuries.
The injuries we see most often in these cases include:
You can’t walk away from injuries like this with just a few weeks off work. Many of these conditions require multiple surgeries, months of rehab, and care that stretches years (or maybe even a lifetime) into the future. After a truck accident, you may not be able to work the same job anymore, or you may not be able to work at all. You still need to be able to live your life.
This is where having Dr. Andrew Georgi on our team changes the outcome. Dr. Georgi is our Medical Director, a full-time member of the firm rather than an outside expert we phone when we need one. Before joining us, he spent his career as an anesthesiologist and assisted in more than 10,000 surgeries.
He evaluates your injuries directly, identifies complications that are not obvious in the first days after a crash, and maps out what your medical future actually looks like. When an insurer tries to argue your injuries are not that bad, Dr. Georgi’s assessment is hard evidence of what really happened. That medical credibility, built in from day one, is one reason our clients recover what they are genuinely owed.
No two truck accidents are the same, so it’s not possible to give an accurate estimate of the value of your case without knowing the details. Compensation is based upon factors like the severity of your injuries, your ability to work and live after the crash, and how much insurance coverage is available across all responsible parties.
A North Dakota truck accident settlement usually accounts for two kinds of damages.
Truck settlements tend to be larger than car accident settlements because:
None of that money comes automatically. It comes from documenting every loss thoroughly and refusing to accept the first lowball offer the insurer puts on the table.
Two North Dakota laws shape almost every truck accident case, and understanding them early protects you.
Under N.D. Cent. Code § 28-01-16, you generally have six years from the date of injury to file a personal injury lawsuit. That is one of the most generous windows in the country, but it is not a reason to wait. If you wait, you’re giving evidence the opportunity to degrade and witnesses the chance to forget what they saw. The sooner an attorney can act, the stronger your case will be.
Note that if your claim is against a government entity in North Dakota, the timeline is shorter. You have to present a claim against the state to the Office of Management and Budget within 180 days. If the truck, driver, manufacturer, or municipality that caused your accident is a representative of the state, you need to take action right away.
Second, fault. North Dakota follows modified comparative fault under N.D. Cent. Code § 32-03.2-02. You can recover damages as long as you were less than 50 percent responsible for the crash, but your award is reduced by your share of the blame. If you are found 20% at fault on a $500,000 claim, you receive $400,000, which is a reduction of 20%.
This rule often prompts insurers to try as hard as possible to pin more of the blame on you, trying to reduce their share of the burden. We counter that by building a factual record of what happened, keeping responsibility where it belongs.
Grand Forks sits at the crossing of two heavily traveled freight routes, causing a lot of the truck accidents we see.
Interstate 29 is the primary north-south freight corridor through the Dakotas. It is designated as a high-priority and international trade route that carries truck traffic all the way up to the Canadian border at Pembina and down toward Fargo and Sioux Falls. The volume is constant, and the speeds are high.
US Highway 2 is the major east-west route, crossing the state and meeting I-29 right at Grand Forks. The interchange where these two corridors meet concentrates commercial traffic and creates the kind of merging, high-speed conditions where serious truck crashes happen.
Then there is the weather. North Dakota winters bring ice, blowing snow, and sudden whiteouts. Summer hail and thunderstorms can reduce visibility to zero. Dust storms that blow in can make it impossible for truck and car drivers to see what they need to see. A truck driver must know how to handle these challenges and safely eliminate risks to other drivers, possibly by pulling over and waiting until the rain or dust has passed.
The state has invested in systems like variable speed limits and incident detection along I-29 specifically because of how often weather and freight density combine into crashes here.
A Grand Forks semi truck accident lawyer who knows these roads, these conditions, and how local crashes actually unfold brings something a distant firm cannot. We know this terrain because it is ours. If you were hurt in a commercial truck crash anywhere in or around Grand Forks, let us carry the legal fight so you can put your attention where it belongs, on getting better.
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