If you have been injured in a truck accident, the decisions you make in the first hours and days matter. In this video, board-certified truck accident lawyer Marion Munley walks you through the steps that protect both your health and your legal rights.
What You’ll Learn
- Why medical care should be your first priority — even without obvious symptoms
- Why you should not speak to the insurance company before calling a lawyer
- How attorneys preserve black box data and driver logs before they disappear
- What a temporary restraining order is and when your lawyer needs one
The first priority after any truck accident is your medical care. Even if you feel fine at the scene, many serious truck accident injuries — including internal bleeding, traumatic brain injury, and spinal damage — do not produce immediate symptoms. Getting examined by a doctor creates both a medical record and a baseline for your injuries, which becomes critical evidence in any future claim.
Once you have received medical attention, contact an experienced truck accident attorney before speaking with any insurance company. Trucking companies carry commercial insurance with dedicated claims teams whose job is to minimize payouts. They may contact you within hours of the crash. Anything you say — even an offhand comment — can be used to reduce or deny your compensation.
A truck accident lawyer will act quickly to preserve evidence that disappears fast. This includes the truck’s black box data, the driver’s hours-of-service logs, maintenance records, and any dashcam or surveillance footage. In some cases, your attorney must file a motion in court to prevent the trucking company from destroying or overwriting this data.
Marion Munley is triple board certified in Truck Accident Law, Civil Trial Law, and Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She currently serves as Vice President of the American Association for Justice and was the first woman to chair AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group. Munley Law is the only firm in Pennsylvania with three board-certified truck accident lawyers.
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Munley Law is the only firm in Pennsylvania with three board-certified truck accident lawyers. We have recovered over $1 billion for injury victims, including a $26 million verdict for a client who suffered a brain injury in a tractor-trailer crash and $19.8 million for the family of three killed by a distracted truck driver.
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