Trucking and Transportation
Barnwell Whaley’s trucking and transportation attorneys represent and defend motor carriers, owner-operators, brokers, and insurers in litigation throughout South Carolina. In addition, the firm is approved counsel for multiple trucking insurers, casualty insurers, and self-insured companies. We defend high exposure claims and lawsuits involving allegations of catastrophic injury, traumatic brain injury, burns, permanent disability, and wrongful death. The firm has ample depth of bench to defend large, complex claims and cases.
After a crash, time is the enemy. Critical evidence and information can be lost. Barnwell Whaley’s trucking defense attorneys are available 24-7 to execute rapid-crash response investigations. We are on call and available to immediately go to an incident scene with a vetted panel of accident reconstruction experts available to assist in crash investigations.
In this era of “nuclear” verdict exposure, mitigating that risk is an ongoing, challenging, and critical process. Our attorneys are trained to understand the nuances of trucking law and operations. As important, we are fortunate to have seasoned trial lawyers who are able to effectively present complex factual and legal concepts in a compelling defense theme – a skill becoming rarer as mandatory alternate dispute resolution reduces the number of cases tried.
In defending lawsuits, we routinely consult preeminent experts in engineering, accident reconstruction, human factors, electronic device data recovery, industry regulatory compliance and safety management, medicine, life care planning, vocational rehabilitation, and economics.
We believe in teamwork internally and with our clients, and we leverage our efforts with technology. As a result, we frequently bring cases to successful, mediated resolutions.
We keep abreast of industry and legal trends and participate in ongoing legal and technology education. Our attorneys are members of the Defense Research Institute, the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association, the South Carolina Trucking Association, the Truckload Carriers Association, and the Trucking Industry Defense Association.
For assistance with a crash during or after business hours, contact attorney Scott Wallinger at (803) 467-0497 or swallinger@barnwell-whaley.com.
Related areas of law:
Admiralty and maritime law
Alternative dispute resolution
Insurance coverage
Personal injury
TRUCKING AND TRANSPORTATION ATTORNEYS
CHRISTOPHER M. KOVACH
SAMUEL J. PERSON
R. SCOTT WALLINGER
G. HUDSON WORTHY