Consider the features of a transport truck. It is large and heavy. In addition, it has many working parts, and if any of those parts malfunction, the truck’s driver could find it hard to keep from having an accident.

Our legal system provides any allegedly guilty party with the chance to present a defense. That opportunity extends to any defendant in a personal injury case. What sorts of defenses might be used by someone that has the right to fight an allegation of negligence, the sort that proved capable of causing an accident?

Both lawyers and the insurance company could find it hard to assign liability for an accident, if that particular incident were caused by the fact that one of the drivers had suffered a medical emergency.