Transportation

Fox Smith lawyers have defended transportation companies in personal injury and wrongful death claims and lawsuits throughout the Midwest.

We have successfully represented clients in cases arising from automobile, trucking, school bus, boating, taxi service, and intermodal operator accidents. Fox Smith has a team of experienced attorneys and paralegals, as well as investigators and accident reconstruction experts, to assist with the investigation and defense of transportation accidents. We employ two nurse paralegals to assist with the evaluation of medical treatment and defense of injury claims. Through our extensive medical defense practice, we have access to physicians and other medical professionals who can be instrumental in assisting to evaluate transportation-related injury claims.

Fox Smith attorneys have a broad range of experience defending transportation-related claims and lawsuits, including:

  • Defending national over-the-road trucking companies in injury and death claims throughout the Midwest.
  • Verdict of only $8100 against a tractor trailer operator in admitted liability case involving leg amputation injury.
  • Successful result on behalf of intermodal operator in workplace injury lawsuit tried in St. Clair County, Illinois.
  • Defense of national school bus company in case in Madison County, Illinois, alleging improper supervision and restraint of passenger.
  • Multiple defense verdicts in St. Louis City and County courts on behalf of the largest taxi cab operator in the City of St. Louis. Favorable arbitration ruling on behalf of trucking company in property damage claim.
  • Successful outcome on behalf of school bus company in lawsuit filed in mid-Missouri arising from accident resulting in de-gloving leg injury.
  • Successful trial result on behalf of pleasure boat operator in accident with a jet ski at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Fox Smith invests in state-of-the-art technology to enable us to thoroughly investigate an accident and in the latest courtroom innovations to enable our attorneys to most effectively present the case at trial.

Tom Smith

Ron Fox