School Bus Accidents in Banning

Parents inevitably experience devastating trauma when their children are injured in school bus accidents in Banning. That trauma is often compounded by the complex process of determining who is liable to pay compensation for the injuries that those children suffer.

The bus accident and injury lawyers at Walter Clark Legal Group investigate every aspect of a school bus crash to identify the negligent parties that contributed to its cause. We pursue the parties and their liability insurers to secure the financial reimbursements our clients and their families need to move past their trauma.

What Parties Might Be Liable for School Bus Accident Injuries?

School bus accident liability in Banning extends well beyond the driver and third-party motorists who crashed into the bus. In every case, our skilled lawyers go through a checklist of potential at-fault parties:

• The school bus driver, who may be liable due to speeding, ignoring stoplights and yield signs, or driving while distracted or incapacitated
• A school district and the private school bus company that the district hired, particularly if the company failed to train drivers, hired them without performing proper background checks, or did not supervise them adequately
• The manufacturer of the school bus if safety systems were designed poorly or were not operational
• Bus mechanics and their employers who performed faulty or negligent maintenance
• Motorists who crashed into the bus
• Municipalities responsible for road maintenance and repair where a faulty road contributed to the bus accident

Our attorneys will also consider whether medications affected a bus driver’s concentration to determine if a drug manufacturer did not include adequate warnings with those medications. They do this in every case we handle because an injured party’s damages and financial losses can often exceed the limits of any one negligent party’s insurance coverage, and multiple insurance claims might need to be pursued to recover full compensation.

How Can Injured Bus Accident Victims Secure Their Rights to Recover Damages?

Banning parents and caregivers whose children are injured in school bus accidents should first get the medical care that their children need to address their injuries. Even if injuries seem minor, children who were on the bus should be examined by a physician as soon as possible after the accident to establish a written medical record of their injuries at that time.

Then, parents and caregivers should retain experienced legal counsel to begin the process of gathering and securing evidence about the bus crash and to act as an interface with insurers that might try to settle claims quickly for low amounts that do not provide the full compensation that injured accident victims deserve.

Retaining qualified legal counsel is particularly crucial if an injured accident victim has a claim against a public state entity or employee. The California Tort Claims Act requires claimants to send specific notices of their claims within six months of the accident to the municipality that may be responsible to pay compensation. An experienced lawyer will take care to file that claim properly, as failure to do so can preclude an injured party from collecting compensation from a liable municipality.

Contact Us If Your Child Was Injured in a School Bus Crash in Banning

The personal injury lawyers at Walter Clark Legal Group have represented injured parties in lawsuits involving school bus accidents in Banning for more than 30 years. We take great pride in devoting personal attention to every client’s case and to fighting for the compensation they need to recuperate from the physical and emotional trauma caused by the accident.

Please call us for a no-fee assessment of the damages you might recover in your school bus accident lawsuit.