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            Serious injury vehicle accidents are often the result of an accident involving a large vehicle.  The worst cases are usually caused by larger vehicles.  When there is an 18 wheeler accident, or a bus accident, or a train accident, the severity of the injury is likely to be higher and the need for a lawyer is greater.

            In one such accident a bus driver failed to control his bus, because of mechanical problems. often limit their areas of practice to a few specialties, but they do not often narrow specialties into extreme sub-specialties.  Personal injury lawyers handle claims arising from someone’s negligence and there is really not much distinction between injuries caused by an 18 wheeler accident or a truck accident or a car accident or a dog attack or a slip and fall.  The really distinction in an 18 wheeler accident from a typical car accident, and even the majority of accidents is the severity of the injury. 

            A typical car accident results in whiplash injuries, meaning cervical injuries that result in serious soft tissue injury pain that tends to go away over time. In a typical 18 wheeler accident at the very least the damage to the victim’s vehicle is much greater than in a typical car accident.  An 18 wheeler accident is also likely to cause serious injuries often resulting in fractures, closed head injuries, herniated disc, or death.  A car accident is less likely to result in serious injuries.  In most 18 wheeler accidents there is also greater insurance coverage than in a typical car accident. This is a result of the existing law which requires it.  This makes perfect sense, because the probability of serious injury or death is much greater in 18 wheeler accidents than in car accidents. 

            When a law firm has 18 wheeler accident lawyers, it would probably be a personal injury lawyer.  Most personal injury law firms accept 18 wheeler accident injury claims.  Where there is some degree of sub specialty is in the severity of the injury.  There might not be an 18 wheeler accident lawyer, or a train accident lawyer, or a bus accident lawyer, or even a motorcycle lawyer, but there are law firms that limit their practice to serious injury cases.  This in turn generally means that the accident law firm would only accept cases that are serious, which are generally a result of 18 wheeler accidents, train accidents, bus accidents, and motorcycle accidents.  Most serious injury claims arise from these types of accidents.  Car accidents can and do result in serious injury claims, but are less likely to result in serious injuries such as brain injury, closed head injury, herniated discs, fractured bones, or death. 

            The need for a lawyer also rises as the severity of the injury rises.  A whiplash injury case may or may not warrant hiring an lawyer.  Often insurance companies refuse to pay medical bills incurred in whiplash injury cases, because the physical evidence is minor and suggests there is no injury.  This leads injury victims to seek an lawyer, but for the most part the fact that it is a small matter makes hiring a personal injury impractical, because there would not be a sufficient recovery to pay the medical costs and lawyer fees. 

            Serious injury cases tend to require a lawyer in most situations.  An 18 wheeler accident can cause serious injury and some insurance companies attempt to seek a quick settlement and knowingly or neglectfully mislead the injured party to believe that it is in the injured’s best interest to refrain from obtaining an lawyer.  Once an agreement is reached the insurance company has not further risk of financial loss on the claim. 

           Often the injured party is surprised to receive a bill from their health insurance company following the settlement.  The bill is often equal to or greater than the settlement.   Sometimes the injured party discovers that further medical treatment is required such as a surgery and then attempts to renegotiate with the insurance company and is quickly rebuffed.  Sometimes insurance companies keep promising that a good personal injury settlement will follow and keep making the promise until there only a few weeks remaining before the statute of limitations runs out.  The victim then receives a letter advising the statute of limitations will run out in two weeks.  The same personal injury settlement promises continue, until the statute of limitations runs out.  Meaning the victim has lost the right to file a personal injury lawsuit, because too much time has lapse.