Our Merced Truck Accident Lawyers provide strong representation for victims injured in accidents involving UPS vehicles. If you are struck by a brown van, UPS must be held accountable for every medical bill you receive and your lost time at work.
Please contact Maison Law of Merced for a free case consultation. It’s a no-pressure, no-obligation way to get your questions answered. It pays to know what your injury is worth before you trust UPS to provide what is fair for what you’ve been through.
How to Determine If You Need a Lawyer for Your Truck Accident Case
Your need for a lawyer will largely depend on the potential value of your case. If you’ve suffered a serious injury due to a UPS driver’s mistake, the value will rise just as quickly as your medical bills. This means UPS will fight harder to avoid taking the blame.
To avoid having to pay out a lot in compensation, UPS will rely on its insurance adjusters and its corporate lawyers to tear down your case. They can change the story of your accident, making it look like you caused the crash. They might use their own doctors to proclaim your injuries aren’t all that bad.
These are tactics to limit what you receive. You always have the option to file a claim yourself. However, A lawyer is often an important safeguard to protect you from these tactics.
Your Maison Law attorney looks over every detail of your accident and collects powerful evidence to back your case. Once the blame is firmly on the right driver, we enter aggressive negotiations to win you the maximum possible for your injury recovery. We win support to last you as long as you’ll need to restore your life back to normal.
Schedule a Free Consultation with a Merced UPS Accident Attorney
We offer a free consultation to all Merced County accident victims injured in a crash with a UPS truck. It’s an easy way to determine if you have a strong case and if UPS owes you support for what you’ve been through.
If your case only involves vehicle damage and/or very minor injuries, you may be able to handle your case on your own with success. If that’s the case, we will let you know that.
If you end up requiring our help to hold UPS accountable for a more serious injury, we are ready to help without any upfront cost to you. We only get paid if we win support for you from UPS. Then our fee comes out of the settlement check UPS must write for you.
Finding Support for Victims After a UPS Accident
UPS sends its brown vans out on streets like Yosemite Avenue and nearby neighborhoods each day. You can also see their semi-trucks delivering packages between fulfillment hubs on busy routes like Highway 99.
They drop important packages off at our homes and businesses, but their trucks can prove dangerous when drivers get careless. Victims can get struck by a heavy, box-like van and be subjected to an extra powerful impact. They can suffer major injuries and even life-threatening harm.
It’s a skilled lawyer’s duty to make sure victims have what they need to mount a full recovery.
A Maison Law attorney demands that these and other hardships be covered by any settlement:
- Help with all medical bills
- Lifelong support for victims who come away with permanent disabilities
- Travel costs to medical appointments, especially to see specialists in other cities
- Lost Income and benefits while victims must miss work
- Support provided for the pain victims must cope with
- Support for the emotional trauma victims are left with after a bad accident and a difficult recovery
- Support for the loss of enjoyment of life
- Covering vehicle repair bills or replacement costs
- Wrongful death benefits for the families of victims
Who Covers UPS Drivers Who Cause Accidents?
UPS drivers drive large vehicles that carry a lot of heavy cargo. On narrow lanes through Merced and Merced County, drivers can struggle to keep big vans and tractor-trailers in their lanes. They might have trouble slowing down a UPS vehicle after building up too much speed.
Drivers can also get distracted by texts and other communication from dispatchers and fail to watch what’s going on along neighborhood streets. They can get in a hurry to make their deliveries and become reckless.
These are all reasons a delivery driver might cause an accident and why victims may need to know where accident compensation will come from.
UPS covers its full-time employees with a big commercial insurance policy, with a limit of up to $1,000,000 in some accidents. But remember, it’s a giant, national business with the money to bring in corporate lawyers to make it difficult for one vulnerable victim to win what’s fair after a collision.
UPS doesn’t use a lot of contract workers (non-UPS employees). But if you are struck by someone working for UPS, you may have to rely on the driver’s personal car accident insurance. This might be a policy with much lower limits. Insurers can also reject these claims when they find out their policyholders were delivering for UPS at the time of the crash.
The delivery person may also be working for a local partner of UPS and may be covered by their company.
It’s a good idea to let an experienced attorney determine who should be responsible for what happened to you and then direct claims to the right place.
Contact a Merced UPS Van Accident Attorney
After suffering a serious injury that a UPS driver is to blame for, it’s a good idea to take advantage of a free case review with a real lawyer. Contact us to set up a meeting to go over your options.
Allow Martin Gasparian, the founder of Maison Law, to fight back on your half. Mr. Gasparian has experience taking on giant companies like UPS. He will work to force UPS to stop delaying and provide everything you need to rebuild your life.
