Wettermark Keith has a downtown Chattanooga office and has recovered compensation in more than 50,000 personal injury cases.
If you or a loved one has been injured in a crash with a semi, 18-wheeler, delivery truck, or other commercial vehicle anywhere in the Chattanooga metro – from the I-75/I-24 split at Ridge Cut to the I-59 junction at Wildwood, from Hixson and Red Bank to East Ridge, Ooltewah, and Signal Mountain – our attorneys are ready to hear your story. Call us today or complete the form to start your free case review.
Chattanooga sits at one of the busiest freight intersections in the Southeast – and trucking companies move fast to protect themselves.
A tractor-trailer jackknifes on I-75 in a sudden downpour and crushes the car in front of it. A fatigued long-haul driver drifts across the centerline on I-24 coming off Monteagle. A delivery truck runs a red light near Hamilton Place and t-bones a family on the way home.
Why commercial truck cases are different from ordinary car accidents.
The trucks weigh 20 to 30 times more than a passenger vehicle. The drivers and carriers are regulated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). And the insurance policies routinely carry limits in the millions – which is exactly why trucking companies and their insurers deploy rapid-response investigators to crash scenes, sometimes within hours, to build a defense before you've even left the hospital.
Tennessee law gives injured victims tight deadlines and a steep fault rule.
Tennessee follows a modified comparative fault rule – if you're found 50% or more at fault, you recover nothing. And the statute of limitations for most crash claims is just one year from the date of the wreck, one of the shortest deadlines in the country. Insurance adjusters know both rules, and they routinely call injured drivers within days hoping for a recorded statement that shifts blame before the clock runs out.
How our Chattanooga attorneys build your case.
At Wettermark Keith, we take on the trucking companies and insurers so you don't have to. Our team will:
- Preserve the truck's black-box ECM data before the carrier can overwrite it.
- Subpoena hours-of-service logs, dashcam footage, and maintenance records.
- Pull police reports from Hamilton County, Chattanooga PD, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
- Identify every potentially liable party – driver, motor carrier, broker, shipper, maintenance contractor, parts manufacturer.
- Build a case designed to push your fault share below Tennessee's 50% bar and maximize recovery.
We handle claims for medical bills, lost wages, vehicle damage, pain and suffering, and – in cases involving FMCSA violations, impairment, or reckless conduct – punitive damages.
