Practice Areas & Industries: Tharpe & Howell

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Transportation carriers and insurers face complex challenges 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, many stemming from nuanced circumstances and legal and regulatory issues unique to the Transportation industry. If you don’t investigate, contain, assess and resolve each claim and issue quickly and cost effectively, it can keep you “off the road” and cost your business dearly.

For almost two decades, Tharpe & Howell has been partnering with transportation clients and bringing them the knowledge, experience and creativity needed to successfully meet this challenge. We’re intimately familiar with the legal and operational needs of the transportation industry, so we work with our clients to avoid pitfalls and prevent liability risk whenever possible. When claims do arise, we help tailor and implement concise, expedient and cost-effective plans for resolving them. Our team of specialists includes the industry’s best field investigators and accident recon experts, and is available around the clock to meet the needs of our clients – from immediate direction of catastrophic loss investigations, through trial of any matter, large or small.

As long time, active participants in the Trucking Industry Defense Association and the Transportation Lawyers Association, Tharpe & Howell stays on the cutting edge of legal, regulatory and legislative developments affecting the industry. And we’re leaders in developing groundbreaking tools – like protocols for immediate large loss investigation – that help save carriers and insurers tens of thousands and sometimes even millions of dollars.

That’s why Tharpe & Howell is trusted by the country’s largest and most respected motor carriers and commercial transportation insurers, including J.B. Hunt Transport, Schneider National, Carolina Casualty, Sentry and Vanliner.

Services Available

Tharpe & Howell’s Transportation Practice Group provides comprehensive representation for transportation carriers and commercial transportation insurers in all phases of their operations. This includes:

• Working closely with you to successfully and cost-effectively navigate your transactional, operational, litigation and insurance needs. We handle everything from the most difficult catastrophic injury cases to cargo claims, employment and labor matters, insurance coverage issues and contractual disputes.
• Providing ongoing counseling on safety issues, risk management and preventative measures, and helping you establish ongoing policies, procedures and employee education that effectively minimize risks and optimize responsiveness to issues and claims that do arise.
• Offering frequent seminars, newsletters and presentations to keep you updated on the latest developments and tools available to successfully minimize legal problems.
• Serving as West Coast counsel for some of the nation’s largest motor carriers and transportation insurers.

If you would like more information about Tharpe & Howell's Transportation Law Practice Group, please contact Firm Partner Robert Bruce Salley at (818) 205-9955.