A PORT CITY MAKES
A PARTICULAR KIND OF CRASH
Norfolk International Terminals and the wider Port of Virginia put heavy freight onto Hampton Boulevard, I-64 and the tunnel approaches around the clock. When one of those trucks hits a car, the injuries are rarely minor and the case is rarely simple.
The difference is who you’re actually up against. A truck claim can involve the driver, the motor carrier, the trailer’s owner, the broker who arranged the load, and a maintenance contractor — each with separate counsel, separate insurance, and a reason to point at the others. Federal rules stack on top of Virginia law: hours-of-service limits, inspection and maintenance requirements, and electronic logging data.
That last point is why these cases are decided in the first weeks. Logging data, dashcam footage and maintenance records can be legally gone before a claim is formally made. A preservation letter goes out immediately, or the best evidence in your case simply no longer exists.
WHY THESE CASES ARE DIFFERENT
WHAT A TRUCK CLAIM
IS ACTUALLY WORTH
Virginia DMV crash data puts Norfolk at nearly 4,800 crashes in 2024, with twenty of them fatal. When a tractor-trailer is involved, the physics stop being negotiable — and the carrier’s investigators are usually on the scene before anyone thinks to call a lawyer.
Virginia also makes the stakes higher than most states. Under our contributory negligence rule, an injured person found even slightly at fault recovers nothing at all. A carrier’s first move is often to suggest the car did something wrong. That argument has to be answered with evidence, early, before it settles into the file as fact.
We build these claims for what the injury will still cost years from now — the surgery that hasn’t happened yet, the work that can’t be done, the earnings that won’t recover. Not what the adjuster offers in month one.
IN NORFOLK
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285
injury clients represented in Norfolk in the last two years
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16,000+
injury clients represented since 1995
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65+
years practicing in Norfolk’s courts
EVERY DAY COUNTS
The carrier’s insurer started working the day it happened. Records that would prove your case may not survive the month. Call 757-622-3317 now — free, no obligation.