Transportation

Overview

In transportation, success hinges on logistics and managing multiple variables. It goes well beyond exit ramps, loading docks, and runways — there are hundreds of variables that affect every shipment.

Legal issues in the transportation field are just as complex, addressing issues from qualifications to safety to product security and integrity. We represent a wide array of clients in transportation-related litigation, including insurers, insureds, and various self-insurance funds.

Our extensive contacts and range of experience in complementary legal fields gives us the ability to coordinate various experts and investigators that are necessary in complicated transportation issues and claims. In fact, our contacts in the medical community often provide medical opinions on plaintiffs’ medical claims. Whether dealing in liability, loss prevention, employment, or financial issues, we have the experience to advise and defend our clients competently and comprehensively.

We represent trucking, bus, and rail clients in the almost every facet of transportation law, including:

• Contracts
• DOT/PSC Compliance
• Driver Fatigue
• Driver-Employment Issues
• Intermodal and Leasing Issues

• Litigation
• Loss Prevention
• Medical Certification
• Negligent Entrustment
• Property or Personal Injury

Rapid Response Team

HBS has a team of trucking lawyers with extensive experience managing serious post-accident investigations, claims, and litigation. One of the services the firm provides that separates us from others is our rapid response capability. We are prepared to assist our trucking clients 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

We can quickly assemble a full team, including independent adjusters and accident reconstruction experts, to investigate your trucking or transportation accident. With the assistance of these individuals, our rapid response attorneys can immediately begin the investigation of a serious accident with an eye toward preserving and collecting information likely to have a major impact on the defense or resolution of claims.

Our rapid response team is available at all times and all hours to take your call. If your company or insured has been involved in an accident or situation that needs immediate attention, please contact us either by phone at 404.954.5195 or by emailing Jim Gilson at jgilson@hallboothsmith.com.