An accident involving a semi-truck can leave you with serious injuries that can last a lifetime. This means that you can end up facing extensive damages in the form of medical expenses, lost wages, and physical and emotional pain and suffering. Dealing with these losses can be nearly unbearable, especially since they can threaten your financial stability for years or even decades to come. If a negligent trucker caused your accident, though, you might be able to recover compensation for your damages.

Consider the Trucker’s Medical Condition

There are a lot of ways that you can prove negligence, but in the context of a truck accident one way is to show that the trucker who caused the accident was violating a federal safety regulation at the time. One violation that can be powerful evidence of negligence is a failure to seek appropriate treatment for a medical condition that affects the trucker’s ability to safely operate his vehicle. Sleep apnea, for example, causes an individual to stop breathing while sleeping, only to be remedied when he awakes. These disruptions can occur hundreds of times a night, resulting in an individual who is excessively sleepy and fatigue.

Proving a Federal Regulation Violation

Sleep apnea is just one of the many medical conditions that, if left untreated, can form the basis of a federal safety regulation violation. But there are a lot of trucking regulations that are meant to keep you safe. In order to prove that they’ve been violated, you need to gather as much evidence as you can. This might mean deposing a trucker, gaining access to trucking logs, and retrieving and analyzing accident reports.

Then, you’ll need to develop a legal strategy that effectively applies the law to those facts. This is something that an experienced attorney can help you with, thereby better ensuring that your claim has the best possible chance of success under the circumstances.