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CHARLES H. RITTGERS: A trucker is a professional driver. They should be held to a higher standard, specifically because they have a special license, which is called CDL. And they are driving an instrument of death if it is not properly maintained and taken care of and driven according to the rules of the road.
When a person is injured or killed in a collision with a semi, they need to look at the personnel file of the truck driver, whether he has criminal convictions, what is his training, whether he's ever been cited before. They need to look at the inspection records of the semi. They need to look at cell phone records. Was the truck driver texting, going 65 miles an hour.
The load that they're carrying shifted, possibly because it was not properly loaded to begin with. There are so many things that a lawyer needs to look at.
JASON A. SHOWEN: The insurance companies are going to fight you tooth and nail about the smallest or the biggest of injuries. No matter how obvious or how easily proven, they are going to run you through. And therefore, you have to have a firm that's going to be able to understand that, defend it.
CHARLES H. RITTGERS: In order to try and make their lives whole again.
[GRAPHIC: Rittgers & Rittgers, 12 East Warren St, Lebanon, Ohio 45036, Personal Injury, Motor Vehicle, Premises Liability, 866-629-8639 Rittgersinjurylaw.com]
