Shreveport riders go down on I-20, I-49, Youree Drive, Line Avenue, and Jewella Avenue, and the ambulance goes to the Level I trauma center at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport on Kings Highway, to Willis-Knighton, or to CHRISTUS Highland. Caddo Parish suits can be filed and tried in the First Judicial District Court at 501 Texas Street. Trey Morris Injury Lawyers is at 509 Milam Street, across the street from the Caddo Parish Courthouse.
Results for Louisiana Clients
- $49 MillionMotor Vehicle Accident
An impaired driver of a stolen vehicle driving the wrong way collided with our client head-on, resulting in brain injury and multiple broken bones.
- $12.1 MillionMotor Vehicle Accident
A commercial vehicle failed to stop at a red light subsequently crashing into our client causing serious brain injury and permanent loss of function.
- $7 MillionMotor Vehicle Accident
When the other vehicle struck our client, the result was a major hemorrhage and a stroke.
- $6.25 MillionMotor Vehicle Accident
A fatigued commercial-vehicle driver fell asleep at the wheel and rear-ended our client, leaving our client with severe neck and back injuries.
- $3.3 MillionMotor Vehicle Accident
Motor vehicle collision. Details not publicly disclosed.
- $3 MillionMotor Vehicle Accident
Out on the highway, the at-fault driver hit our client.
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Louisiana Negligence Law and Motorcycle Accidents in Caddo Parish
A motorcycle case in Caddo Parish gets built the same way any negligence case does. La. C.C. Art. 2315 says the person who caused the harm has to repair it, and you prove four things to get there: the driver owed you a duty of care, broke it, the breaking of it caused your injuries, and you have documented losses. Miss one of the four and the claim fails.
Title 32 of the Louisiana statutes spells out what drivers owe each other on Youree Drive, on Mansfield Road, and on every other street in the parish. A car driver owes you the same care he owes a pickup. Your smaller profile does not shrink that obligation by an inch.
When a driver breaks one of those traffic statutes, you get a head start. Failure to yield, an illegal lane change, following too closely, running a red light: the violation establishes duty and breach by itself, with no separate argument that the driver behaved unreasonably. The fight narrows to causation and the size of your damages. The wreck we see most often is the left turn, where a car cuts across an oncoming bike and the driver says he never saw the motorcycle. That sentence is an admission, not a defense. The duty to look covers motorcycles.
Causation is where the ground shifted. Act 18 of 2025 (La. Code Evid. Art. 306.1, effective May 28, 2025) ended the Housley presumption in civil tort cases, so a rider who was healthy before the wreck no longer gets the benefit of an assumption that the wreck caused the injury. You generally need a treating doctor or an expert to draw the line from the collision to the injury, which makes your medical file the spine of the claim.
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Common Causes of Shreveport Motorcycle Accidents
Youree Drive from South Shreveport toward Pierremont is one shopping center and medical office after another, with short signal cycles and cars crossing lanes to turn all day. That mix produces the left-turn and T-bone conflicts that leave a rider the least room to brake or swerve.
I-20 carries east-west traffic straight through downtown, and the lane merges near the Texas Street and Market Street exits pinch it into a knot. I-49 runs north and south at highway speed, and the deceleration zone near the Bert Kouns exit is a documented cluster point for high-speed rear-end crashes. Bert Kouns Industrial Loop works like a highway connecting I-49 to I-20, except its intersections sit at grade with signals, so a driver at highway speed meets a red light with little warning. Take a rear-end hit at that speed difference, or a merge where a driver never registered a smaller vehicle, and it becomes catastrophic injury rather than bent metal.
Pavement matters more on two wheels. Loose aggregate, expansion-joint gaps, uneven surface, and road-edge drop-offs on Line Avenue, Jewella Avenue, and older stretches around town barely register in a car and will put a bike down. On Jewella between Greenwood Road and I-20, inconsistent lighting adds to it after dark. Where a public body’s road design or deferred maintenance created the hazard, there is a claim against that body only if all of these are true: the defect made the road unreasonably dangerous, the body knew or should have known about that specific defect before the crash, it had a reasonable chance to fix it and did not, and the defect caused the rider’s injuries (La. R.S. 9:2800). Those claims carry their own procedural rules, so they have to be spotted early. Casino traffic along the Red River puts impaired drivers on the road late, and an impaired driver who hits a rider brings conduct into the case that raises what it is worth.
This week: go back to the spot in daylight and photograph the pavement, the sight lines, and whatever blocked the other driver’s view of you.
Comparative Fault and Rider Bias in Caddo Parish
La. C.C. Art. 2323 tells the judge or the jury to hand out fault in percentages among everyone involved, and each side’s damages come down by its own share. If you are 30% at fault and your damages total $100,000, you recover $70,000. In Caddo Parish motorcycle cases the defense starts from a story: you were speeding, splitting lanes, weaving, not paying attention. Often there is nothing behind the story but the assumption that a man on a bike must have been doing something risky. The point of it is to move your percentage up and the defendant’s exposure down.
Act 15 of 2025 turned that story into a weapon. For a wreck on or after January 1, 2026, Art. 2323 carries a 51% bar: a rider assigned 51% or more of the fault collects nothing at all. Louisiana used pure comparative fault before that, so a rider carrying most of the blame still collected something. Now the single point between 50% and 51% is the whole case. Crash reconstruction, witness depositions taken before memories soften, and the electronic data off the vehicles are what hold that number down.
One more rule cuts the same direction. Louisiana’s direct action statute, La. R.S. 22:1269, allows a suit directly against the at-fault driver’s insurance company only in limited situations, such as when the driver is bankrupt, insolvent, or deceased, cannot be served, or when the claim is against your own uninsured motorist carrier. In most cases the suit names the driver, and the insurer stays out of the caption.
Louisiana requires a helmet on every operator and passenger on a public road. If you were not wearing one, you still have a claim. The question that matters is whether the missing helmet actually changed the injuries you are claiming. No insurer gets to discount a femur fracture, road rash, or a torn spleen on the ground that your head was bare, because headgear would not have prevented any of them. Helmet evidence turns on the documented facts of the crash, not on a blanket assumption.
This week: tell the shop or the tow yard in writing not to repair or release your bike, and send us the address where it is sitting.
Injuries and Damages in Shreveport Motorcycle Cases
A rider takes the collision force with his body, so Shreveport motorcycle injuries land at the severe end: traumatic brain injury, spinal cord damage, long-bone and pelvic fractures, organ damage, and road rash deep enough to need skin grafts. How severe and how permanent the injury is drives what the claim is worth: it sets the medical cost and how much of your working life changed.
Louisiana sorts damages into two piles. Economic damages have paper behind them: past and future medical bills, lost wages, lost earning capacity, the bike itself, and the out-of-pocket items people forget, like the mileage to appointments and the ramp you had to build. Non-economic damages cover what never comes with an invoice: physical pain, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, permanent scarring and disfigurement, permanent disability. Louisiana puts no general cap on any of that in personal injury cases against private defendants. Louisiana’s $500,000 caps reach only medical malpractice and claims against the state, a parish, a city or another public body (La. R.S. 13:5106), such as a road-defect claim; a claim against a private driver has no cap. In a claim against a public body, the cap limits only the non-economic damages, such as pain, mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life; medical care and related benefits, past and future lost earnings, and property damage like the bike are recovered on top of it.
Some of this shows at the scene and some of it does not. A brain moving inside the skull can leave you confused, forgetful, and sensitive to light days later. Internal bleeding can look like nothing from the outside while it turns dangerous. That delay is why you get evaluated even when you walked away upright, and why a gap in treatment hands an adjuster the argument that your injuries came from somewhere else. Neuropsychological testing for a brain injury and imaging for spinal damage put numbers on a page, and numbers are harder to wave off than how you say you feel.
When a rider is killed, Louisiana recognizes two claims. A wrongful death claim under La. C.C. Art. 2315.2 belongs to the surviving spouse and children, or if there are none, to the parents, then the brothers and sisters, then the grandparents, for their own loss. A survival action under La. C.C. Art. 2315.1 covers what the rider went through before death, and it belongs to those same relatives in the same order; the representative of the rider’s estate can bring it only when none of those relatives is living. The family can bring both claims together in one lawsuit against the same defendant, in a court that is the proper place for each claim (La. C.C.P. art. 462).
This week: ask every provider for complete records and itemized bills instead of the visit summary, and keep the appointments already on the calendar.
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What to Do After a Shreveport Motorcycle Crash
What happens in the first hours sets the ceiling on everything after. A rider usually walks away hurt worse than the driver who hit him, so the medical piece comes first and the legal piece can wait an hour.
Call 911 and let them evaluate you even if adrenaline has your pain turned off. A report from the Shreveport Police Department or the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office writes down the location, the road conditions, what each driver said, and any citation issued, while all of it is still fresh. Fault gets disputed in nearly every motorcycle case, and that report is where the dispute starts. If you went down on I-20, I-49, or another state highway, the Louisiana State Police usually work the crash instead.
If you can move safely, photograph the whole scene: both vehicles, the road surface, skid marks, debris, the signals, and your own injuries. Get names and numbers from anyone who stopped, before they drive off, because one neutral witness settles the kind of conflicting accounts drivers and adjusters produce in these cases. Do not apologize, do not take blame, do not describe your injuries to the other driver or his insurer, and sign nothing and record nothing until you have talked to a lawyer.
This week: if you are still in a hospital bed, hand your phone to whoever is sitting with you and have them collect the photos and the witness numbers while the trail is warm.
Proving Fault and Preserving Evidence
Your account of the wreck is not proof of negligence; it is one story against another, so the investigation has to replace assumption with evidence. The first work is paper and data: the police report, the EMS run sheet, and the event data recorders in the vehicles, downloaded before anybody touches them.
Evidence goes stale fast. Businesses along Youree Drive, along Bert Kouns, and off the I-20 exits overwrite camera footage on cycles as short as 48 to 72 hours. Wrecked vehicles get repaired or hauled to salvage. Witnesses lose the details inside of a few weeks. Once the facts give an honest basis, we send preservation letters asking those businesses to keep their footage and the tow yard to hold your bike. When liability is genuinely disputed, an accident reconstruction expert takes the damage patterns, the skid marks, and the physical evidence and rebuilds the collision, and a biomechanical analysis ties those forces to your particular injuries.
The driver is not always the only one who pays. If he was working when he hit you, his employer answers under respondeat superior (La. C.C. Art. 2320), which usually opens a commercial policy far larger than a personal one. Finding every responsible party changes both the insurance available and how the percentages get split.
This week: list every business with a camera pointed at the spot and send us the list.
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Filing Deadlines and Insurance Coverage for Caddo Parish Riders
You have two years from the day you were hurt to file suit (La. C.C. Art. 3493.1). Louisiana calls this a prescriptive period, and once it runs the defendant can raise it and have the case dismissed, no matter how plainly the other driver was at fault. One doctrine can delay it: an injury nobody could have known about gets the discovery rule. Being under 18 does not pause the clock for most claims, so a parent or tutor has to file within the same two years.
If the driver who hit you carried nothing, or nowhere near enough, your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage becomes the main source of compensation. A Louisiana auto policy generally includes UM coverage (La. R.S. 22:1295). On a personal auto policy, UM matches the policy’s bodily injury limits. That stays true unless a named insured signed the state’s form to reject it, choose lower limits, or choose economic-only coverage, which does not pay for pain and suffering. A commercial policy carries UM only if someone selected it. UM generally does not cover you on a motorcycle you own if that motorcycle is not listed on the policy you are claiming under. If the driver took off, Louisiana treats an unidentified hit-and-run driver as an uninsured motorist, and the law does not require a police report for that. If the other vehicle never touched you or your bike, you have to prove the unknown driver caused the crash through an independent witness with no stake in the claim.
If you were riding uninsured, La. R.S. 32:866, the No Pay No Play statute, takes a bite. Since August 1, 2025, an uninsured driver cannot collect the first $100,000 in bodily injury damages or the first $100,000 in property damage, even where the other party caused the whole thing. It does not bar the claim outright, and damages above those thresholds can still be pursued. The limit does not apply at all if the other driver fled the scene, caused the crash on purpose, was committing a felony at the time, or is convicted of, or pleads no contest to, the DWI charge from the crash.
Caddo Parish motorcycle cases can be filed in the First Judicial District Court, with federal court available in limited circumstances. Most of them resolve in negotiation or mediation, and the preparation is usually what moves the offer, because a file ready for a Caddo Parish jury is real exposure for the defense. Trey Morris Injury Lawyers takes rider cases on contingency, with no attorney fee unless the firm collects compensation for you, and the firm handles cases across Caddo Parish, Bossier Parish, and Northwest Louisiana. If your wreck happened across the river in Bossier Parish, the case can be filed in the 26th JDC in Benton.
This week: pull the declarations page for every policy in your household and confirm in writing whether UM coverage was accepted or rejected, and at what limits. Then give us the date, the location, and the names, and we will pull the crash report.