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Self-Insured Companies or Independent Truckers Have Many Sinister Ways to Defeat You
Rather than purchasing coverage from an insurance carrier, many transport companies protect against personal injury claims from accidents by reserving a percentage of their assets to pay them. Though federal and state governments monitor the commercial insurance industry and their adjusters and try to hold them to ethical standards as best they can, no such rules exist for self-insured trucking companies, independent truckers, or statutes to oversee their behavior. More on this Web-Page
Seeking compensation from either of these liable defendants can be chaotic, quite toxic to your legitimate compensation claims, and even pose a real danger to you or your family from time to time. You will likely be forced to try and settle your injury claim with an officer of the self-insured company. Typically, this company officer’s salary is tied directly to company profits. Any amount you pay for an injury comes directly from the company coffers. This means that when the company’s office agrees to your compensation, whatever it might be, he or she is taking money out of their own pocket. So we’re never surprised at the depths a self-insured company officer will stoop to deny your claim and protect the company’s assets. Got Injured In An Accident – CALL SHAW
Some of the tricks they pull are reprehensible, while others can be nothing short of illegal. Self-insured companies (and independent truckers who are self-insured or have no insurance) have been known to destroy evidence that proves your claim, bribe witnesses, and even intimidate their victims, sometimes physically. We’ve learned of intimidation attempts directed at our clients before they hired us. This is why every time our attorneys are hired against a liable self-insured party; the first thing we usually do is to prevent anyone with the company from behaving unsuitably toward our clients. Often, we are forced to file motions in court against these liable parties that demand they entirely refrain from communicating with our clients, or their families, in any way unless one of our attorneys is present.
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