Truck Accident Lawyer Los Angeles

Commercial trucking accidents are different from passenger vehicle accidents. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulations govern driver hours, vehicle maintenance, cargo loading, and carrier liability. When a semi-truck, 18-wheeler, or commercial delivery vehicle crashes in Los Angeles, multiple companies and multiple insurance policies are involved. The trucking carrier, the driver's employer (different entities in most cases), the cargo company, the maintenance contractor, and the truck manufacturer all have liability exposure. Each has its own legal team.

David Lederer and John Nojima are former insurance defense attorneys who defended trucking carriers in injury lawsuits. They know the corporate playbook: send an investigator to the scene before the plaintiff's attorney even hears about the crash, download the black box data, secure witness statements, photograph road conditions, and document every detail that supports the defense narrative. If the plaintiff waits a week to hire an attorney, critical evidence is already gone.

We respond immediately. When you call Lederer & Nojima after a truck accident, we dispatch an investigator to the scene, file a spoliation letter demanding preservation of the truck's event data recorder (black box), subpoena the driver's logbooks and hours-of-service records, and send representation letters to every liable party. The trucking company's insurer gets our demand before they get comfortable.