August 29, 2024
Settlement Ranges for Car, Motorcycle and Truck Accidents
What is the Range of Settlement Value for Truck Accidents?
Accident settlement ranges for a truck accident involving a tractor-trailer or other commercial motor vehicle accident for a serious injury will normally range from $300,000.00 or $400,000.00 up to several million dollars. Bull Attorneys, experienced truck accident attorneys, settled a claim for a lady with a broken thumb and a neck surgery for $335,000.00. One of our wrongful death tractor-trailer accidents settled for $1,400,000.00. Another tractor-trailer case with quadriplegia resulted in a $9,500,000.00 settlement. Another tractor trailer case where the driver backed over the motorcycle rider and killed the rider settled for $850,000.00. Bull Attorneys motorcycle accident lawyers settled a motorcycle wrongful death case caused by a speeding tractor-trailer driver for $2.45 Million dollars.
The larger settlements always come from commercial policies of insurance in contrast to a private individual who causes a car wreck. The larger injuries come from catastrophic injuries with spine surgeries, paralysis, wrongful death, amputations, and large wage loss claims.
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Truck accident lawyers and attorneys are not all the same. Many seriously injured personal injury victims of tractor-trailer and truck accidents do not realize that the average lawyer may not add any additional claims against the trucking company for having inadequate safety plans in place.
Many truck accident attorneys do not bring claims for negligent hiring, negligent training, negligent supervision and negligent retention.
When a lawyer who rarely practices truck accident law brings a claim for you and does not file a petition adding claims of negligent safety practices, negligent hiring, negligent training, negligent supervision, and negligent retention, then the most important part of your truck accident case may be lost and never presented to a jury.
What is the Range of Settlement Value for Commercial Fleet Vehicles?
The range of settlement for a commercial fleet vehicle accident with severe injuries or death ranges from $200,000.00 to $3,000,000.00 and higher depending on the insurance coverage, severity of the injury, whether a death resulted and the particular facts about the fault of both parties.
Fleet vehicles usually will have commercial general liability policies which can have $250,000.00 a Million dollars or higher umbrella policies.
These types of case have a wide range of settlement value depending on whether the company who owns the fleet vehicle has set up a safety program and uses safety training, orientation and studies preventability of fleet vehicles.
A commercial vehicle injury with resulting burn injuries and wrongful death after an accident with a fleet vehicle was settled for $3 Million dollars. We settled a fleet vehicle case with a shoulder surgery for $200,000.00. We settled a claim for a Hispanic women who had a cervical fusion after injury with a fleet vehicle for $580,000.00.
What is the Range of Settlement Value for Car Accidents?
Car accidents that cause severe injury or wrongful death are always dependent upon the amount of insurance coverage available. The range of car accident settlement values are different from commercial motor vehicles and fleet vehicles. The range of settlement value for a severe car accident can be as low as $25,000.00 up to several million dollars where the driver has a commercial insurance policy or the driver has taken out high levels of insurance with an umbrella policy.
The range for average settlement value is hard to calculate because it depends on injury severity, death, amount of insurance available, and how much wage loss exists.
Bull Attorneys, experienced car crash lawyers, routinely settle car accidents with severe injuries for hundreds of thousands of dollars if the person needs spine surgery or suffers other severe injuries. Minor injuries like whiplash, muscle strains and sprains will usually not bring high settlements unless we can prove that your car accident injury has caused nerve damage, injury to your spine, injury to your shoulders or knees requiring surgery.
A car accident we had resulting in wrongful death to a minor resulted in a settlement of $817,500.00. A car accident with a pedestrian suffering with quadriplegia from a central cord compression settled for $2,250,000.00. A car accident with a grain truck with a severe shoulder injury and nerve injuries causing our client not to be able to use their arm settled for $1.5 Million Dollars. Of course, we have many other car accidents that settle for policy limits ranging from $50,000.00 to $250,000.00 and higher, where cases may be worth more, but the at fault driver does not have high limits of insurance and the injured client did not carry high levels of uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage.
What is the Range of Settlement Value for Motorcycle Accidents?
The range for settlement value on motorcycle severe injury and wrongful death cases can be between $100,000.00 to as much as $2.4 Million Dollars and is dependent upon whether the motorcycle rider is injured from a private individual or has been injured or killed by a fleet vehicle, commercial motor vehicle or tractor-trailer. Most motorcycle accidents cause severe bodily injury and usual limitation with them is the combined insurance coverage of the at-fault driver along with the uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage limits of the motorcycle rider.
Since many motorcycle insurance policies like Geico and Progressive write lower coverage and limit amounts for motorcycle riders many of the clients never have a policy with uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage above $100,000.00.
Our firm settled a motorcycle wrongful death case where a truck driver with an empty load came up too fast on the cyclist and killed him for $2,450,000.00 Million Dollars. We had another motorcycle rider who had a large construction semi-tractor back over him twice, ultimately killing him that we settled for $850,000.00. Of course, we have had many other motorcycle injury cases ranging from $50,000.00 to over a million dollars. There are too many factors to give a specific average value.
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What is the Range of Settlement Value for Farm and Ranch Accidents?
The range of settlement value for farm and ranch injuries is generally higher than non-farm accidents because most farmers and ranchers will carry vehicle insurance policies, farm and ranch policies and umbrella policies. These settlements can range from $250,000 to $1.5 Million dollars and higher. Bull Attorneys are highly experienced farm accident lawyers.
We routinely fight with insurance carriers like State Farm who try to claim they do not have insurance coverage for a motor vehicle titled for highway use.
Bull Attorneys settled a case for a farm worker with severe injuries who was pinned between a grain truck and wooden post which resulted in severe injuries that caused him to have all of his teeth replaced. It caused him to have severe nerve injuries and undergo a shoulder replacement surgery and a need for nerve grafting for $1.5 Million dollars. Many of the severe injuries on farm and ranch cases are worth the policy limits that the farmer or rancher carries.
Conclusion
Our Bull Attorneys are Kansas personal injury lawyers and truck accident attorneys who have offices across Wichita and in Garden City and are licensed in many states in the Midwest. Before you hire a lawyer, ask them how many jury trials they have won and what their largest settlements have been! The Bull Attorneys are known for big monetary awards and most of our clients never have to go to trial. You can use our contact page or get a free call at our Wichita offices at 316-684-4400 and our Garden City office at 620-843-2855.