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A collision with a loaded tractor-trailer can total your car and leave you with lasting injuries. You are left facing medical bills, missed paychecks, and calls from an insurance adjuster who works for the trucking company, not for you.
What you need is someone who can sort out who pays, how much your claim is worth, and how you get your footing back.
A Stratford truck accident lawyer at Loughlin FitzGerald, P.C. can carry that weight for you. Attorney John F. Conway has practiced law in Connecticut since 1989, and every attorney at the firm carries a Super Lawyers or Rising Stars distinction, a peer recognition given to a limited number of attorneys each year.
Reach out to talk through what happened and what it could mean for your recovery.
Truck crashes rarely look like an ordinary fender bender. The size and weight of a commercial vehicle change how the crash happens and how the claim gets built afterward. As a Stratford truck accident lawyer team, we handle claims arising from:
Each type of case calls for different proof, from a truck’s electronic logging device to its maintenance and inspection records, and we build your claim around the specific way your crash happened.
A crash with a commercial truck usually means higher medical bills, a longer recovery, and a fight involving more than one insurance company, including the trucking company’s carrier and sometimes the cargo owner’s insurer too. Connecticut law also gives you a limited window to act.
Under Connecticut General Statutes § 52-584, you generally have two years from the date you discover your injury, and no more than three years from the crash itself, to file a lawsuit. Miss that window and you likely lose the right to recover anything at all. Connecticut also follows a modified comparative negligence rule.
Under Connecticut General Statutes § 52-572h, you can still recover damages as long as you were not more than 50 percent at fault for the crash, though your award gets reduced by your own share of the blame.
Trucking companies and their insurers often try to shift fault onto the injured driver to reduce or wipe out a payout, which is why the fight over fault percentages can matter as much as the fight over your medical bills.
Federal rules also limit how long a truck driver can stay behind the wheel before resting, and a driver who blew past those hours-of-service limits before your crash can become an important part of your case. This information reflects Connecticut law as of September 2026.
Loughlin FitzGerald, P.C. has built a record of results in serious personal injury cases across Connecticut, including a $1,250,000 result for a client left with a traumatic brain injury and other catastrophic harm after a rear-end highway crash, and a $775,000 result for a client who needed surgery after a violent rear-end collision caused permanent neck and shoulder damage.
A $575,000 combined result also came from a catastrophic crash between a car and a motorcycle, resolved for a severely injured wife and her late husband’s estate. Attorney John F. Conway, an Associate Editor of the Fordham Law Review before he joined the Connecticut bar in 1989, has been named a Connecticut Super Lawyer for 7 consecutive years, since 2020.
His colleagues, James E. Ringold and Dorothy J. Diaz-Hennessey, hold their own Rising Star distinctions, with Ringold recognized for 8 consecutive years and Diaz-Hennessey since 2020. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome, but this kind of depth matters when you are up against a trucking company’s legal team.
In most cases you have two years from the date you discover your injury, and no more than three years from the crash itself, to file suit. Waiting to talk with a truck accident lawyer in Stratford can cost you evidence and, eventually, your right to file at all.
Yes, as long as you were 50 percent or less at fault. Your award gets reduced by your share of the blame, but going past 50 percent bars recovery entirely, which is why trucking insurers push hard to raise your fault percentage.
Federal rules generally cap a truck driver at 11 hours of driving within a 14 hour window, followed by 10 consecutive hours off duty. A driver who ignored those limits, or a company that pressured a driver to keep going, can add real weight to a negligence claim.
Stratford falls within the Judicial District of Bridgeport, and civil lawsuits from crashes in Stratford, Connecticut are typically filed at the Superior Court on Main Street in Bridgeport. Knowing the right courthouse and its filing rules matters when a deadline is approaching.
The firm can explain how fees work during a free consultation to review what happened and what your claim may be worth.
Get medical care right away, even if you feel fine at the scene, since some injuries show up later. Get the police report number, photograph the scene and both vehicles if you are able, and avoid giving a recorded statement to the trucking company’s insurer before speaking with a lawyer.
Yes. Delivery trucks, box trucks, and other commercial vehicles making stops around Stratford still fall under many of the same safety rules as long-haul tractor-trailers, and the company that owns the truck can often be held responsible along with the driver.
A trucking company’s insurer moves fast after a crash, often before you have even seen a doctor twice. A Stratford truck accident lawyer at Loughlin FitzGerald, P.C. can step between you and that pressure while you focus on recovering. There is no upfront cost to find out where you stand, and no obligation to move forward after that first conversation.
Schedule a free consultation to talk through what happened and what your next step should be.
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