Maison Law represents Los Angeles residents who are hurt in car accidents involving a Lyft car. Our personal injury lawyers aggressively seek compensation for our clients from reckless Lyft drivers and their employers. Please contact us for 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 Lyft fully responsible for recovery costs.
Should I Call a Lawyer After a Lyft Accident?
If your injuries end up being serious and a Lyft driver is to blame for your crash, you should talk over your options with a skilled Los Angeles Lyft Accident Lawyer. When medical costs are high, Lyft will fight hard to avoid having to accept responsibility for its driver. They’ll have corporate lawyers on the case, all trying to shift blame in an accident or working to downplay your injuries so they can offer you less.
Your Maison Law representative protects you from these common tactics. Your Maison Law Los Angeles car accident attorney gathers powerful evidence to force insurance companies to provide the maximum compensation for you and your family.
Hazards on Lyft Rides
Los Angeles freeways and boulevards already feature lanes packed with speeding cars, giant trucks, and slow-moving buses. Nowadays, local roads are also full of rideshare cars taking riders across Los Angeles County for short and long trips. You’ll see lines of rideshare cars on busy routes like Sepulveda Avenue and the 405, although you may not always be able to tell them from other vehicles.
Asking normal drivers heading to work, to school, or the beach to show caution as they drive is already a tough task. But for Lyft drivers, distraction is built into the job. Lyft drivers rely on their phones to be alerted to ride requests, to find the locations of passengers, and to map to their desired destinations.
This reliance on cell phones is just one reason that Lyft drivers can be involved in major crashes.
- Driver Distractions: One of the most common causes of Lyft accidents in Los Angeles is distracted driving. Lyft drivers come into contact with a wide array of distractions such as glancing at a rideshare app for ride requests, texting and driving, and even speaking with passengers inside the vehicle. A distraction can quickly draw a driver’s attention away from the roads, causing a catastrophic collision.
- Unfamiliar Roads: Los Angeles is a large tangle of busy roads. Few people know every street by heart. Lyft drivers may have to rely on navigation apps that don’t always send them in the right direction. When a driver is in an area that they are not familiar with, they could suddenly hit the brakes, make a turn from three lanes over, and cause a collision.
- Fatigue: Lyft drivers sometimes work extensive hours trying to make as much money as they can. They may even work for other rideshares at the same time. When a driver spends long hours on the road without rest, they could become unfocused or fall asleep behind the wheel, which can lead to devastating results.
- Speeding: Lyft drivers may race from one destination to the next so that they can accept more passengers in a day. They can also hit the gas to keep a passenger happy and hopefully receive a good rating. Speeding increases the likelihood of an accident, as well as increases the chance for the accidents to inflict even more serious dangers.
- Unsafe Parking: Drivers sometimes do not find an actual parking spot when they are picking up a driver, as they expect it to be quick business. However, an unsafe pick-up area can easily lead to a serious accident. Cyclists may come upon a rideshare driver in a bike lane and have no time to avoid a collision.
If you or a loved one are hurt in a Lyft accident and the Lyft driver or another driver is to blame, you should speak to a Lyft Accident Lawyer. Lyft will pay corporate lawyers and insurance adjusters to try to transfer blame away from its drivers after a crash. They’ll also be charged with trying to get you to accept as little as possible for your injury, or nothing at all.
Your Maison Law car accident lawyer is a safeguard for your case and investigates your accident and Lyft for you. Then the evidence is gathered and submitted in a claim demanding the maximum in compensation possible from the rideshare company.
Who Can I Hold Responsible After a Los Angeles Lyft Accident?
Victims injured in Lyft accidents would usually file a claim against the driver’s personal car insurance first. In certain situations, a claim could then be filed against Lyft to seek whatever the driver’s policy didn’t cover.
Here is what could happen during the claims process:
- The Lyft Driver’s Insurance: Rideshare drivers are required to carry car insurance just like any other driver on our roads. You will start by filing a claim with their insurer. In some cases, insurance companies deny claims when they find out an accident occurred while their policyholder was on the clock for Lyft. If your claim is rejected, you will file a claim with Lyft instead.
- Lyft Insurance Coverage: Lyft provides coverage up to a million dollars for both drivers and their victims in the event of an accident. However, this will only be available to you if your driver was logged into the company’s app at the time of the accident. The rideshare will do anything to challenge the integrity of your claim and offer you much less than you deserve so that they can save more money for their company, which can leave you in a challenging position.
In some cases, a driver in another car may strike the Lyft vehicle you are in. You would seek compensation from the other driver’s car insurance company. This support would also be available to an injured Lyft driver.
Insurance adjusters are trained to convince you to accept less than you should for your injuries. Once a car accident settlement is signed, you can’t go back to ask for more money when your injuries flare up in the years ahead, or you require additional surgeries or physical therapy. It’s always a good idea to allow a skilled lawyer to look over any settlement offer before signing away your rights.
What Kind of Compensation Can I Receive from Lyft?
Your Lyft accident settlement check should factor in every hardship you and your family have faced after a Los Angeles collision.
This would include support for your economic hardships, like medical invoices, and your non-economic damages. Non-economic hardships would include the PTSD symptoms you may suffer after a frightening collision observed from the back seat of a Lyft Car.
Your Maison Law personal injury lawyer demands support for these and other hardships be included on a Lyft car accident settlement check:
- Medical bills you have incurred or expect to incur
- Physical therapy costs
- Lifelong costs if you suffer a permanent physical disability
- Support for the pain you endure
- Support for the anxiety and depression caused by an accident
- Support for the loss of enjoyment of life a serious injury may cause
- Lost wages or future loss of earnings
- Job support and security for Lyft drivers hurt in collisions by another driver
- Wrongful death damages for families after a loved one is killed
Contact a Los Angeles Lyft Accident Attorney Today
If you have been injured in an accident involving a Lyft driver, you should contact our Los Angeles Lyft accident lawyers at Maison Law immediately. Filing an injury claim with Lyft and its insurance providers can be complex. It’s also easy to be tricked into accepting far less than you need to fully recover from an accident.
We offer a free and confidential case review to all Lyft victims. Please contact us today to schedule an appointment. It’s a no-risk way to determine what your case is worth and how to hold a rideshare fully liable.
And if you do need Maison Law’s help to secure more in support, you don’t need to worry about having the money to hire a lawyer. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement Lyft must provide.
