Maison Law helps California victims hurt in accidents involving Buddytruk delivery drivers. We hold truck owners and their employers responsible and fight to make sure victims get their hospital bills paid and lost paychecks replaced in full.
Please take advantage of a free case review with a real California truck accident lawyer. It’s a no-obligation, pressure-free way for victims to learn how to protect their cases and hold commercial insurers fully accountable.
Figuring Out If You Need a Lawyer After a Buddytruk Accident
Generally, victims who suffer serious injuries in truck accidents can benefit most from a lawyer’s help. A serious injury can include a broken bone anywhere in the body, a brain injury (even a serious concussion), ligament damage, or a neck or back injury. These types of injuries take longer to heal and build up more in doctor bills.
Increases in recovery time and medical bills are enough to make insurance companies pull out all the stops to avoid blame. They can fault the victim, even when a California Highway Patrol accident report says otherwise. They might even proclaim a broken arm or leg as not that serious, simply to discount the victim’s settlement check.
You can always handle your claim yourself, but a lawyer can often win you more for your injuries, especially when taking on a large company and its lawyers. Your Maison Law attorney starts a full investigation into the accident and has evidence ready to battle all insurance tactics meant to rob you of support.
Take Advantage of a Free Meeting with a California Truck Accident Attorney
Once you’ve gotten emergency care, you’ll likely have time to wonder who is liable for an accident caused by a driver working for someone else. Determining who should be first in line to offer you financial assistance should be a priority as you attempt a physical and financial recovery.
There’s an easy way to get a legal perspective on this dilemma and find out about every benefit available to moving truck accident victims. Schedule a free, no-obligation case evaluation with Maison Law. It’s a chance to examine just who should be offering insurance help to you and your family, and how to secure the most from your truck accident injury.
What We Want to Win for You After a Truck Accident
You may know that you can earn support for your hospital bills, but you may not know about the many other damages that truck insurers should cover.
Maison Law would demand these and other benefits on your behalf:
- Support for medical expenses, including surgeries, medical equipment, ambulance rides, physical therapy, and ongoing treatment
- Support for a permanent disfigurement or scarring
- Support for any travel costs built up while having to make doctors’ appointments and specialists who may be in other cities
- Reimbursement for lost wages and the loss of the ability to support yourself if you have a permanent physical disability
- Money to get a car repaired or replaced
- Support for “pain and suffering”, which covers the mental stress and trauma you’ve endured as a result of the accident, as well as the pain you must cope with
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Buddytruk work?
Buddytruk is a Gig-style business, meaning it provides an app to help independent contractors (truck owners) hook up with customers who need the services of a truck and crew. It’s usually short-term work. It might be a job to help someone move or haul something away. The idea is to pay for service as if you were asking a “buddy” for help, and the buddy happened to have a truck. It’s a great service, but if the driver of a loaded-down pick-up gets careless on a gig and strikes someone, the consequences can be devastating.
Who is responsible if a Buddytruk worker hits me?
Buddytruk requires its workers to supply their own trucks and to have their own auto insurance coverage. But Buddytruk also has contingency auto liability insurance. It’s meant to kick in if the truck driver’s insurer rejects a claim or doesn’t provide enough to cover all of a victim’s damages. The extra coverage is often needed because truck drivers often carry the bare minimum in coverage. Claims can also be denied if an insurer doesn’t cover policyholders while they are using their vehicles for work.
Can my family ask for support if a loved one is killed in a truck accident?
Families who lose a loved one to a tragic Buddytruck-involved accident can seek assistance through a wrongful death claim. They should get help with funeral costs and with paying off leftover medical bills. Families must also demand help for the future when the income the deceased had contributed to family finances is no longer available.
A California Wrongful Death Attorney can represent the entire family and also ask for support for the family’s emotional distress and loss of companionship.
Contact a California Buddytruk Accident Attorney
California truck accident victims have up to two years to file a claim after a frightening collision. Waiting isn’t recommended, though. It’s best to go over your case with a lawyer as soon as possible. Your lawyer can then begin an investigation while the evidence is still fresh, and witnesses can be identified and contacted.
Maison Law offers free consultations and case reviews to all California victims hurt by a Buddytruk driver.
There’s no obligation, but if you feel we can help you earn more, you don’t have to stress about how you’ll pay a lawyer. We don’t ask for any payment unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement check that Buddytruk and its insurers must write for you and your family.
