Tire Defect Accident Injury Lawyer

If You’ve Been Injured Due to a Tire Blowout or a Rollover Accident, Then Our San Antonio Tire Defect Attorneys Will Fight For You

Experiencing a rollover accident is stressful enough – they’re as frightening as they are dangerous. Sadly, your stress and strain only begins with the accident because the legal process to pursue compensation for harm done by such an accident can be trying and stressful as well.

The process to obtain damages after an accident resulting from a tire defect or rollover differs from other types of accidents, presenting several unique challenges. Without any doubt, you need the help of a skilled and experienced San Antonio tire defect attorney to stand the best chance of securing the compensation you deserve.

While the injuries and property damage caused by a rollover accident tend to be more severe than in other types of passenger car wrecks, many victims, also known as plaintiffs, still have their insurance claims denied because they don’t have skilled legal representation protecting their rights and ability to receive restitution. Inexperienced attorneys will struggle with the specific requirements of proving a rollover accident case, and non-lawyers will likely be lost altogether, virtually forfeiting their chances of ever seeing the compensation to which they are entitled. If you want the restitution you deserve for the injuries and property damage you’ve sustained, then you will need help.

What Makes Rollover and Tire Defect Cases Different from Standard Auto Wreck Cases?

In tire defect and rollover accident cases, the odds are much greater than a standard car accident that more than one party caused or contributed to the cause of the wreck. While the tire manufacturer is liable for most tire defect and rollover accidents due to design or assembly flaws, other parties might also be liable for the wreck with other negligent actions, for example:

• Inadequate installation or mounting of the tire.
• Improper tire maintenance and upkeep.
• Placing a tire on a car for which it was not designed or suitable.

Thus, any party or combination of entities that had a role in the design, manufacture, selection, installation or maintenance of the defective tire may be held for any accident, injuries, and damaged property resulting from that defect.

Several other factors may have caused the accident or the injuries that happened during the wreck, including:

• The design of the vehicle’s suspension may have lacked sufficient resistance to rolling over when static or when loaded down.
• The vehicle may not have been designed with adequate compressive strength and firmness in the A, B, and C pillars, making it more hazardous in the event of a rollover.
• Injuries to the driver or passengers may have been caused by the failure of supplemental safety equipment.
• Even a minor fault in design could lead to major injuries in a rollover accident, so many other factors could have resulted in liability.

You Must Prove Liability to Receive Compensation

While you may deserve restitution for the injuries you suffered in an accident caused by a tire defect, that’s not necessarily going to be enough for you to actually receive fair compensation. To walk away from your accident satisfied financially, you will need the assistance of a capable and knowledgeable San Antonio tire defect attorney, who knows how to prove your case with a professional investigation that locates the evidence necessary to prevail. Just finding evidence isn’t always adequate to win in court, so you will need a lawyer with extensive expert witness contacts in order to frame the evidence in such a way as to convince the jury of your right to restitution.

Since so many different parties may have been liable in whole or in part for an accident involving a tire defect, rollover accident cases are often even more complex than standard car wreck cases, so you’ll likely need an experienced San Antonio tire defect attorney who has built familiarity with the investigation process through years of experiences searching other accident scenes. That’s the only way a professional investigator can gain the experience to know how to find the essential evidence to hold all liable parties responsible for their negligent contributions to the cause of a tire defect or rollover accident.

Our San Antonio rollover accident lawyers at Grossman Law Offices have spent the last 20 years investigating rollover and tire defect accident cases, so we’ve learned the often critical importance of a timely and diligent investigation. We know that evidence tends to fade quickly in any auto accident case, so we go into action as soon as we’re hired to find the evidence before it is gone. In order to examine all of the tires thoroughly, we sequester the vehicle with the tire defect. We rush to the scene of the accident to examine the skid marks and other forensic evidence and search for any witnesses or video documentation that can help put the available physical evidence in context.

Our attorneys have also learned the importance of putting the evidence in terms a jury can understand. Thus, we keep working relationships with a wide variety of experts in different areas of mechanical and engineering expertise who can make the damage to the tires and the structural inefficiencies of the vehicle’s design understandable for laymen.

Selecting the Right Tire for a Vehicle is More Important Than You Might Think

Like most people, you probably think that tires are just random pieces of rubber, and one is as good as another. However, you couldn’t be more wrong. In reality, no automobile can function properly without the sound construction and functionality of the appropriate pneumatic tire. The tire is a complex apparatus – a multi-layered piece of machinery comprised of various materials conjoined to provide maximum heat treatment and friction resistance. If the wrong tire is placed on a vehicle, or if there is any defect in the chemical or molecular structure of the tire, it can malfunction, causing a rollover accident or some other type of wreck.

While a car’s suspension system is comprised of leaf or fixed metal springs, mechanics call the tires the fifth spring because they are just as important to allow an automobile to absorb and release energy as the car turns or changes lanes. Unlike the springs in the suspension, however, tires don’t have a fixed spring rate. Thus, in order to be a “good spring” and function properly, they must be designed for the vehicle on which they are used and in good condition. Cars with worn out tires or tires that were not intended for the vehicle have “bad springs” and will likely cause a rollover accident or some other wreck involving the tire defect.

The weight of your car as it drives down the road flattens your tire at the spot where it meets the roadway. Known as the contact patch, this area is only the size of a tennis shoe, but it is vital to the proper function of the car. The tire heats up at the point where the tire bends to meet the road due to the friction caused by the bending. Bend a paperclip one way and the other repeatedly and you will see the same concept. The tire’s structure can easily be affected by the combination of the heat from friction at the contact patch, the heat caused by compressed air inside the tire, and the absorption of heat from the atmosphere around the tire. A defective tire or one unsuited for the car upon which it has been mounted will likely blow out and cause a rollover accident.

Considering the various ways that heat affects the tire internally and externally, the relative small size of the contact patch, and the fact that the tires are the only things on your car that make contact with the road, manufacturers must make certain that tires will function as they are intended. Moreover, if manufacturers or dealers supply the wrong tire for a particular vehicle, rollover accidents become very likely.

What Damages Can You Receive?

If you have been injured, or a loved one has been killed, in a rollover accident or any other type of accident involving a defective tire, then you’re probably wondering about what damages you can receive as compensation for the harm or loss that you have suffered. While there are different factors to prove when seeking compensation in an accident involving a defective tire or a rollover, the types of pursuable personal injury and wrongful death damages are the same as for other types of accidents.

Available Damages for Injuries Suffered in Rollover Accidents in San Antonio, TX

People who sustain injuries in rollovers or other accident involving defective tires are entitled to pursue compensation for:

• Medical bills.
• Property damage.
• Pain and suffering.
• Lost salary during work missed while recovering or receiving treatment.
• Lost future earning capacity due to long-term disabilities.

Available Damages When in Fatal Defective Tire Accidents

As with an injury, the types of compensation are the same for the families of people wrongfully killed in rollover accidents as with any other fatal accident. They can pursue both wrongful death damages and survival damages. Wrongful death damages allow the spouse, children, parents, and, in some cases, siblings, to receive compensation for the losses they’ve suffered individually. Wrongful death damages may include compensation for:

• Funeral bills.
• Any medical expenses incurred by the victim before he or she died.
• Loss of the financial support supplied to the family by the deceased.
• Emotional and mental trauma.
• Absence of the guidance, unique consortium and familial love supplied only by the victim.

On the contrary, only the closest living relative of the victim has the right to pursue survival damages, which are intended to allow this person to serve as proxy for the victim, filing a lawsuit to secure the damages the victim could have sought had he or she survived the accident. This right is passed down from spouse, to children, to parents, and finally to siblings. Survival damages may include compensation for:

• Medical expenses that would have been charged to the victim for continued treatment.
• Property damage.
• Lost salary due to work missed for recovery and treatment.
• Reduced future earning capacity as a result of possible lifelong disabilities.
• Pain and suffering felt by the victim during the accident.
• Emotional and mental trauma the victim would have experienced during rehabilitation.

The San Antonio Tire Defect Law Firm of Grossman Law Offices Can Assist You

Since liability may be shared in rollover or defective tire accidents, actually obtaining these damages can be challenging. Since defective tire accident cases are so highly technical in nature, non-lawyers and experience-lacking attorneys lack the investigative abilities, expert contacts and familiarity with legal procedure to secure the compensation the plaintiff deserves. In order to be successful, you need a skilled and experienced San Antonio tire defect attorney with a long track record of success. Handling the intricate and unique problems presented by rollover and tire defect cases requires someone with extensive familiarity with such cases.

Our San Antonio tire defect attorneys at Grossman Law Offices have spent the past 20 years helping the victims and grieving family members of rollover and tire defect accidents find the compensation they deserve for their suffering and loss. Whether you have been injured or a loved one has been killed in a rollover accident, or any other wreck resulting from a defective tire, then our attorneys will do everything in their power to see that you are adequately and fairly compensated. Call us today (toll free) at 1-855-393-0000 for a free consultation to discuss the unique circumstances of your accident with a tire defect and rollover law specialist. We can answer any questions you might have about your case and tell you how we can help.