Truck accidents

Crashes the firm handles

The firm's practice areas index says commercial vehicle crashes most often involve 18-wheelers or company vans and trucks, and that its lawyers work with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, which govern most commercial vehicles in Georgia and elsewhere in the United States.^[9]

The truck page lists the kinds of crash the firm investigates: jackknifes, underride collisions in which a car goes beneath a trailer, blind spot crashes, wide-turn collisions at intersections, rollovers, tire blowouts and brake failures, rear-end collisions by loaded trucks, and delivery and box truck crashes on surface streets.^[2]

Parties the firm looks to

According to the truck page, a car crash usually involves one driver and one insurance policy, while a truck crash may involve several defendants and layers of coverage. The page names the truck driver; the trucking company, for its driver's conduct on the job and for its own choices on hiring, training, scheduling and maintenance; a broker, shipper or cargo loader when freight is loaded badly; and a maintenance contractor or parts maker when brakes, tires or steering fail.^[2]

The firm's August 2026 press release makes the same point in general terms, listing the driver's employer, the vehicle owner, a maintenance contractor, a freight broker and the company that loaded the cargo as parties that may share responsibility.^[10]

See: Media and press

Records and evidence

The firm says it sends a spoliation letter, a written demand to preserve evidence, in the first week of a case and sometimes on the first day, because trucking companies are allowed to erase some records on a schedule. The records it names include the engine control module, which stores speed, braking and throttle data from the seconds before impact; electronic logging device data on the driver's hours; the driver qualification file; drug and alcohol testing records; maintenance and inspection history; dispatch and phone records; and cargo paperwork.^[2]

The page adds that the firm retains accident reconstruction experts when fault is disputed and, in serious cases, trucking safety experts. In the firm's account of Nguyen v. TIAG, the tractor-trailer was scrapped before the family's experts could inspect it, the airbag control module was taken from Nguyen's car and never seen again, and the trial court later issued an order on spoliation.^[2][8]

See: Nguyen v. TIAG

Published trucking results

The firm reports the following truck and commercial vehicle results. Each is its own account unless another source is cited.^[4][10][3]

See: Published case results

• Nguyen v. TIAG, Fulton County, 2025. TopVerdict.com lists the verdict at $98,068,719, and the firm describes it as $99.9 million. Published sources describe Brendan Flanagan as having served on the plaintiff's trial team. Appeals A27A0339 and A27A0340 were pending as of October 16, 2026.^{[11][4][12][13][5][6]}

  See: Nguyen v. TIAG

• Delivery truck, Gwinnett County, 2024. The firm says another lawyer referred the case, that the investigating officer cited the delivery truck driver, and that it recovered the full $1 million policy for an injured father.^[14][4]

  See: Delivery truck case study

• Commercial vehicle collision, announced August 11, 2026. The firm says it resolved the case for $2.5 million.^[10]
• Sideswipe by an 18-wheeler on an Atlanta interstate, announced September 29, 2026. The firm says the carrier's insurer paid the full settlement demand in under ten months. The amount was not disclosed.^[3]

Approach and fees as the firm states them

The truck page says Brendan Flanagan handles each case from start to finish rather than handing it to a case manager, that two of the firm's attorneys previously worked in insurance defense, and that other lawyers send the firm trucking cases that need to be tried.^[2]

See: Morgan E. Lyndall; Collin Summerlin

The firm states that it takes truck cases on a contingency fee, a percentage of any recovery agreed in writing, that court costs and case expenses are handled separately under the written fee agreement, and that the first consultation is free.^[2]

Related entries

• Practice areas The eleven kinds of personal injury and wrongful death cases that Flanagan Law, P.C. lists on its website, in the three groups the firm uses.
• Nguyen v. TIAG Fulton County wrongful death trucking case, captioned Huynh v. Transportation Inc. Agent Group, Inc., decided by a two-phase jury verdict in March 2025 and now on appeal.
• Published case results Verdicts, settlements and an appellate decision that Flanagan Law, P.C. publishes on its website and in lawyer profiles, with court records and news reports where they exist.
• Car accidents Flanagan Law, P.C.'s car accident practice: the crash types, case process and advice its car accident page describes, and its published motor vehicle results.
• Brendan C. Flanagan Georgia personal injury lawyer who founded Flanagan Law, P.C. in 2015 and is its founder and principal attorney.