A story of experience...

  • Michael Leizerman, Attorney
  • Past chairman, AAJ Interstate Trucking Litigation Group
  • Author, Litigating Truck Accident Cases by West Publishing
  • Dubbed "King of the Road" by Lawyer's Weekly Publishing
  • Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate
  • Lawyers from CA to NY, FL to MI refer Michael truck accident cases
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Michael Leizerman, Truck Accident Attorney

When I was 9 years old, my dad—who was a school teacher—was in our station wagon with 4 other teachers when they were hit by a tractor trailer. I remember the shattered windows. I remember the shattered lives. (One teacher had been pregnant.)

Now, decades later, I am a truck accident lawyer. I meet with accident attorneys across the country who ask me to help them make sure no stone is unturned, no black box unread, in their client’s truck accident case. I receive calls from truck accident victims across the country asking for advice. Truck safety has become my vocation and avocation. In the past decade, I have:

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  • Served as the Chair of the American Association for Justice’s Interstate Trucking Litigation Group
  • Written the book Truck Accident Litigation published by the world’s largest legal publisher—West Publishing
  • Lectured across the country teaching other accident lawyers how to effectively handle truck accident cases

If you’re an attorney who needs help in a truck accident case, or you or a family member have been the victim of a truck accident, then this website offers a great deal of information for you.

If you’re a lawyer, visit our For Lawyers page, where you can:

  • Learn trucking laws and regulations that apply to trucks and truck drivers (like 49 CFR 391.25—a truck company has an obligation to run a driver’s traffic record every year)
  • Watch our educational truck accident lawyer videos to learn about trucking laws, trucking insurance and other ways that truck accident cases differ from car accidents.
  • Search a database of approximately 400,000 truck companies registered with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and view each company’s safety record.
  • Call me at 800-628-4500, email me at , or use the lawyer contact form to discuss how I can help with your case

If you’ve been in a truck accident, you can:

  • Visit our Victims of Truck Accidents page to find out how the right truck accident lawyer can help you
  • Learn about trucking laws designed to help make our roads safer.
  • Call me at 800-628-4500 or email me at .

I am happy to offer advice and help as much as my time permits. I limit the number of cases I personally handle to a small number in order to devote the full time, energy and resources I know is necessary to the best job possible for my clients.

I am a graduate of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers’ College and consider myself a Warrior for Justice. I give each client the attention I would want my father to receive in the same circumstances.

Thanks for visiting,

Michael Jay Leizerman
Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate 

Truck Accidents blog...

McGovern (D-Mass) Proposes Legislation on Truck Size & Weight Limits
In my law practice , I have encountered truck crashes involving overweight tractor-trailers and crashes with double and triple trailers. Recently, Congressman James P. McGovern (D-Massachusetts) reintroduced legislation that would extend truck size and weight limits to the entire national highway...

Newest Challenge to FMSCA Hours of Service Rules
Another battle is brewing over the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration (FMCSA) Hours Of Service rule that allows truck drivers to work an 11-hour workday and reset their weekly limit by taking a 34-hour break. The rule in question was issued under the Bush administration in 2003. It...

Bendix purchases Eaton's VORAD collision warning system
In a January 5, 2009 press release, Eaton Corp. announced that "...today it has sold its VORAD (Vehicle On-Board RADar) system to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC, which is based in Elyria, Ohio." VORAD and SmartCruise are vision and object detection systems that can eliminate blind spots and...

FMCSA Issues Rule Designed to Improve the Safety of Equipment Used in the Transportation of Intermodal Containers
John H. Hill, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced new rules just before the 2008 holidays designed to strengthen safety requirements for intermodal container chassis, the special trailers that hold cargo containers when they are transferred...

 

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Litigating Truck Accident Cases (AAJ Press)
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