CARGO & CMR LAW
"It's not important what happened, it's important what documents say"
CARGO/CMR accidents
We serve Transport Companies in order to report or deal with cargo/cmr claim. Most of cases are high valued due to type or weight of cargo, therefore You should not deal alone with such legal matters.
Legal advice - Transport LAW
Day to day legal advice for over 20 Transport Companies in 4 countries based on our pay monthly support plans. We also help on case by case basis by providing written legal advice with recommendations.
Road Accidents
Truck accident in France, Germany, Poland or Italy ? They are all different as there are different road traffic and civil laws in each EU country. We are cooperating with network of advocats across whole EU.
Daily Examples of differencies in EU countries
Each EU country has different LAW, different BUSINESS CULTURE and different MORAL STANDARDS for insurance related matters. For Example in Germany You can send Excel file to Insurance company with Your own calculations of for example lost freight costs due to an accident. They will accept the file and consider (or not) Your calculations, where for example in Poland You would have to get this same calculations from qualified accountant with company stamp, so forget about Excel. In Spain You can forget about replacement vehicle after accident, where in other countries it's pretty obvious claim element.
Above and below examples are only SHORT introduction of Our day to day challanges, which we are able to tacke with group of trusted advocats in most EU countries.
ENGLAND & UK
Thus CMR Convention applies, its is very rare that people there know about it. UK is not in EU anymore therefore all out of court and in court proceedings are really hard. Make sure that CMR letter is signed as sometimes warehouse man does not want to sign this which later creates problems.
FRANCE
Unfortunatelly French companies and authorities are not willing to communicate in English, therefore for every even simple case we need our French advocats coleagues which generates extra costs. Typical MTPL accidents are paid in around 6 months based on invoices, its is hard to get some extra money for replacement truck.
GERMANY
There is an order in documents, however German companies in most cases forget CMR convention and apply their own local law and rules. Typical MTPL accident case is closed within 3 months, repair invpoices are not always required. There could be very realistic "fictive" claim settlement with labour hours c.80 EUR/hour.
ITALY
Our Italian coleagues are always on vacation : ) some cases are dealt by them for even 12 months, In general Italian companies are asking lots of questions but they are decent payers if all damages etc are well documented with lots of pictures, maps, explanations etc. We also use Our local coleagues
POLAND
Insures are always trying to find a way to decline CMR claim and unfortunatelly this happens very often, as CMR Insurance is not compulsory in Poland.There is huge difference in fictive and based on invoices repair costs. Most wide and actractive local law for duration of replacement vehicle after claim.
SPAIN
Very strict local law on reporting a claim after maximum of 12 months after accident. Really big problems with replacement vehicles after claim. Rearding CMR claims they process such claims for a long time and require local advicate to represent Client, which again increases costs of such services.
Contact us by email first
For 15+years, we're experts in transport law working with transport companies.
We will not answer Your questions on the first phone conversation, either though we speak English, German and Polish.
We first need time to know Your case and get through documents You have.
Normally we need 48 hours for initial assesment and next steps quote.
Pricing
Exact prices depend on type and size of case, how far it is advanced and where and how it happened. In some countries we must use Our network of advocats or minimum local advocat wages. We are always open for negotiations.
Our typical hourly rate is 250 EUR.
Some cases we could make on success fee no win no fee basis.
Criminal proceedings help for Carriers/Drivers start at 1500 EUR
Monthly legal help advice price plan for fleets up to 10 vehicles start from 750 EUR month
Dedicated Terms & Conditions of CMR carriage start at 1250 EUR
Debt Collection- price on request
Payment always through bank account with invoice and net of VAT.
00 48 514 043 463
IN THE CENTRE OF EU, IN THE HEART OF ROAD TRANSPORT
We are familly owned business from centre of EU- POLAND, where ROAD Transport generates around 6% of Gross Domestic Product DIRECTLY and about 50% of GDP indirectly influecing other economic sectors.
We serve fleets from 1 vehicles to 300 trucks. Our costumers operate standards, mega, ADR tankers, coildmulde, glass trailers, concrete mixers, excavators and many other special equipment. We specialise in transport, we do not serve private individuals.