Question: An 18-wheeler truck backed up on me. The truck company has not paid a dime, and I needed to get a new car and have medical bills. They just keep wanting more information.
BILL: Something isn’t right. You seem like a sweetheart of a person, but trusting the trucking company to do the right thing is iffy, and it may not be good for your case. Tell me a little more about what happened.
Q: I was on my way to work, and this 18-wheeler stopped on the road. No flasher or nothing, nothing saying he had stopped. All of a sudden, he starts backing up, and I laid down on my horn, and he just kept on coming back. Finally, he just ran over my car with me in it. The people that was around me all came running. They had to literally pry my door open to get me out.
I was taken to the hospital. And I have a lot of problems. I had surgery, and two weeks later, I had a stroke. This trucking company’s insurance is not willing to settle with me at all. They’re wanting to get more and more and more and more information. And I’ve sent them a stack of information, you know, on everything.
BILL: Ok. First, stop sending them stuff. Stop it right now. Stop cooperating with the other side. I’ve said it before, but insurance companies are not your friend. They are out to pay as little as possible.
Now you have a heck of a case. This is not something you should be dilly-dallying with.
You’ve got full liability on the part of this trucking company. By that, I mean they are 100% at fault. Plus, you’ve got injuries; even the stroke may be related to the surgery.
I’m not going to tell you to go get a lawyer when you don’t need a lawyer. But you need a lawyer.
You just immediately need to stop trying to take this on yourself. They’re giving you the runaround, and they’re going to continue to do that until the statute of limitations runs out or something very close to that.
Once you pass the statute of limitations time limit – 2 years in Alabama and Florida, 3 in Mississippi – you will not collect anything ever.
So go talk to a lawyer immediately. My biggest fear for you is that time may have already run out. We get cases all the time where people trusted someone, and the time passed. When that happens, there is nothing to be done. You have a heck of a case. Please, get some professional help.
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