Maison Law stands up to big corporations like Amazon when their business practices cause accidents and injure innocent people. We want to represent and protect Chico victims hurt in a collision caused by a careless Amazon driver.
Accident victims should have their medical bills paid and their lost paychecks at work replaced. Contact us after an accident. We provide a free, no-obligation consultation for all local injury victims. It’s a no-risk opportunity to find out what your injury may be worth and how to hold Amazon fully responsible for recovery costs.
Should I Call a Lawyer After a Collision with an Amazon Van?
If an Amazon driver rams your vehicle in a local neighborhood and causes only property damage and/or very minor injuries, you might not need a lawyer to help you file a claim. However, when injuries are serious and medical bills will be expensive, Amazon will be much less helpful when you ask for help with your medical bills and your lost wages while you can’t work.
After an accident, Amazon and its teams of lawyers work to twist the evidence to try to show that you caused the accident. They can also downplay your injuries, so Amazon has an excuse to provide you far less than you need to pay for recovery.
Your Chico Amazon Accident Lawyer fights back against these shady practices and demands the most in compensation possible for your injury.
These are just a few of the ways a skilled attorney improves the outcome of your case:
- Fully investigates your accident and secures all evidence
- Files your claim for you, allowing you to focus on healing
- Aggressively negotiating with Amazon to get the most possible out of your injury
- Earning you much more for your claim than you could usually hope to earn by taking on Amazon yourself
- Preparing to take Amazon to court if it refuses to accept responsibility for its driver’s mistakes
These and other actions all mean your case can be worth much more than you thought. Your lawyer makes sure you have all the support you need now and in the future if a serious injury flares up and you require more medical care.
Does Amazon Have Insurance for Its Drivers?
Yes. Amazon backs its delivery drivers and truck drivers with commercial accident insurance.
Amazon provides up to one million dollars in coverage for its Amazon employees and for its FLEX drivers (contractors who use their own vehicles to deliver Amazon packages).
Unfortunately, this one million dollars in coverage isn’t automatically awarded. Amazon will do its best to keep victims from drawing from the coverage. They can question who was at fault, even when a California Highway Patrol report clearly lists the delivery driver as at fault. Trusting a case to a legal representative may be necessary to force Amazon to accept blame and do the right thing.
Amazon should be ready to accept blame for its employees’ accidents, because its drivers are often more likely to cause accidents. Delivery drivers are often under deadline pressure, and this can make them skip caution and safety as they drive through neighborhoods along busy streets like East Avenue.
The pressure can also tempt drivers to speed. This acceleration only makes the collision all the more powerful, increasing the risk of traumatic injuries. Their trucks and vans are also often loaded down, bringing even more force into a collision. Amazon does everything possible to get you to order its merchandise, and it should be forced to share its profits when someone gets hurt.
What To Do After an Accident Involving an Amazon Van?
Taking on Amazon and its lawyers will be much easier if you have strong evidence backing up your case.
Your attorney can’t be there when your accident occurs, so, if possible, you should try to secure the best evidence you can on the scene.
After an Amazon truck has struck you, try to complete these important tasks before the scene and evidence are cleared away:
- Call 911 to get a Chico Police or CHP response. Request an ambulance if anyone is hurt. Let paramedics check out your injuries. If you must be rushed from the scene, ask someone with you or a helpful witness to collect evidence for you.
- Use your phone to get pictures and video. Only take action if the scene is secure and you feel up to moving around. Show the damage to your vehicle and the damage to the Amazon van. Take photos of the logos and company signs on the truck. Show skid marks and debris if they are apparent across the lanes.
- Swap driver’s license and insurance information with the Amazon drivers. Try to get an employee ID number.
- Talk to witnesses. Get their contact information.
- Get examined by your doctor. Get all injuries documented. Follow all of your doctor’s recommendations. Take your prescribed medications and see any recommended specialists.
- Alert your own car insurance provider as soon as possible.
If you are seriously hurt, the next step is to contact a skilled Chico Truck Accident Lawyer. Amazon can hurry out a settlement offer to you when you don’t appear to have legal representation. It’ll be far less than you need to fully recover physically and financially.
Amazon does this to get you to sign away your rights. Once you sign off on a settlement, you can’t go back to ask for more when you have injury flare-ups weeks or months down the road. Amazon has stuck you with all future complications.
Limit your communication with Amazon until you can speak to a legal professional. Only give basic information. Never give a recorded statement about what happened because Amazon can twist what you say to hurt your case later.
What Type of Things Does Amazon Have to Compensate me for After an Accident?
While Amazon is trying to avoid paying you anything at all for what happened, your attorney will be demanding everything possible.
This is a key step, because you may have totaled your hospital bills from the first week after the accident, but you might have no idea what you could need in the months to come. What if a broken bone didn’t heal properly, and you need surgery? What if you start having headaches again after you were told your Traumatic Brain Injury was healed?
You can’t go back and ask Amazon for more money after you’ve accepted a settlement. It’s why your lawyer will be conferring with your doctors to determine every setback that could pop up in the future. Your current needs and your future concerns must be compensated in any Amazon accident settlement check.
Your lawyer will see to it that these and other hardships factor into the level of your compensation.
- Hospital and rehabilitation expenses.
- Estimated costs associated with a long-term injury or permanent physical disability that are more common with serious delivery truck accidents.
- The hardship of dealing with chronic, physical pain.
- Emotional anguish suffered. The loss of enjoyment of life due to an injury. The loss of consortium (loss of intimacy with a spouse).
- Past and future lost wages at work during recovery.
- Property damage.
- Wrongful death benefits. A family who has lost a loved one to an Amazon driver’s mistake is encouraged to file a wrongful death claim. This claim asks Amazon for help with funeral costs. It also seeks to replace the income the deceased would have provided the family in the future.
Contact a Chico Amazon Van Accident Attorney
If you have been seriously injured or lost a loved one due to a careless Amazon driver’s actions, contact Maison Law for a free accident consultation. It’s a no-risk way to find out how much you should demand from a major corporation after an accident.
If you decide we can help you earn more for your case, you won’t need any upfront money to hire us. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement money Amazon provides to you. Allow your Maison Law representative to handle the frustrating claims process while you focus on healing.
