Maison Law helps injured California victims who have been struck by a careless driver working for Dispatch delivery company. Victims can be confused about who to hold responsible, but we get aggressive to hold driver and employer accountable. They should be covering all medical bills and all lost income for patients left with serious injuries.
Please take advantage of a free case review with a real California car accident lawyer. It’s a no-obligation, pressure-free way for victims to learn how to protect their cases and hold Dispatch and its insurers fully accountable.
Knowing When You Might Need a Lawyer for Your Accident Case
When accidents only involve some minor bumps and bruises, or just car damage, you may come out fine handling your claim yourself. However, when serious injuries, like a broken wrist, Traumatic Brain Injuries, or back and neck injuries, are involved, a lawyer’s help becomes a valuable advantage.
A lawyer is often needed to protect your claim when insurers and lawyers for Dispatch try to dismiss your case and blame you for a collision. Your lawyer investigates what happened and has evidence in hand to make sure the story of what happened can’t be changed.
Victims always have the right to file a claim themselves, but a lawyer can often multiply what victims receive. This is usually much more than victims could earn taking on Dispatch themselves.
Take Advantage of a Free Legal Consultation
The best way to determine if you have a strong case and what your claim may be worth is to schedule a free case consultation with Maison Law. When you need to know if your case is worth the trouble, a discussion with a real lawyer can help. It’s completely confidential, and there’s never any obligation to you or your family members who may need to call on your behalf.
Figuring Out What You Should Earn for an Accident Claim
Support must cover all of your hardships now and any difficulties you can expect in the years ahead.
That can include additional surgeries for your injuries suffered in a collision with a heavy Dispatch box truck or van. It may involve additional physical therapy so you can keep the strength and mobility in an injured limb. Victims can also continue to miss time at their jobs, leaving them to fall behind on the normal monthly bills like rent and car payments.
A skilled California delivery accident lawyer demands support to last for these and other damages:
- All medical bills.
- Lifelong support for victims suffering a permanent physical disability.
- Support for the victim’s emotional trauma, such as depression and anxiety, while managing a difficult and painful recovery.
- Loss of enjoyment of life. The difficulties encountered when having to give up favorite hobbies and sit out of family activities.
- Support for the physical pain victims must live with temporarily or as a lifelong issue.
- Lost wages and benefits while victims are unable to work.
- Long-term support if victims can’t go back to work or must train for a new career.
- Money for car repairs or a new vehicle.
Dispatch Delivery Driver Hazards on California Freeways and Boulevards
Dispatch runs a thriving business that helps businesses find delivery drivers for different-sized jobs. The company employs independent contract drivers who supply their own vehicles.
It’s a helpful logistics and supply chain tool, but it also puts a lot of large trucks, loaded-down vans, and pickups on the roads. Drivers get background checks, but there’s always the danger that a bad driver gets on the road and causes an accident.
These are some of the unique factors that can make delivery drivers a risk for collisions:
- Driver Condition: The delivery driver’s personal state can affect accident chances on any given day. Drivers might be tired and get drowsy while in traffic. They can skip breaks and meals and get rundown and become a danger in the lanes.
- Distracted driving: Delivery drivers can use phones for the same reason many drivers do. To make calls, to text, or to watch videos. These are bad choices and even more damaging when drivers are guiding giant vehicles and big loads. Dispatch drivers might also have to deal with communications from work and customers.
- Speeding: Truck drivers work under strict deadlines, which often causes them to drive recklessly and go too fast.
- Lack of training: Drivers may not have the experience they need to handle the variety of jobs they’ll get on a work app like Dispatch. Dispatch may not provide enough training and checks to make sure their drivers are proceeding safely.
A skilled Maison Law lawyer looks into each accident and finds all the evidence available. This can include some contributing factors that even investigating officers don’t identify. Maison Law can also call in accident reconstruction teams that can show what was going on just before an accident to keep the blame on the delivery driver and Dispatch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Dispatch drivers have insurance?
Yes. Dispatch requires its drivers to have their own car insurance policies. If you are a victim in an accident caused by one of their delivery drivers, you would likely first have to file a claim with the driver’s personal policy. This can be a fruitless effort because some standard car insurers won’t accept claims when their policyholders are working for a company when an accident occurs. Dispatch would prefer that drivers have commercial truck insurance, but it doesn’t appear they check every driver for this protection.
Does Dispatch provide some insurance coverage to accident victims?
Yes. Dispatch considers its drivers independent contractors, but they do cover them with some supplemental insurance when they are on deliveries. The supplemental part means that they want you to file claims with the driver’s personal insurance first. Then, if the driver’s insurance won’t pay or doesn’t offer enough to victims, Dispatch’s policy would kick in.
How long can I wait to file a claim?
California allows personal injury victims to wait up to two years to file an injury claim. However, you shouldn’t wait months to contact a lawyer. You’ll want your attorney to begin investigating your accident as soon as possible so that evidence doesn’t disappear.
Contact a California Dispatch Accident Attorney
Maison Law offers free consultations and case reviews to all California victims hurt by a Dispatch driver. Victims might be the occupants of other vehicles. It might be a motorcyclist sent to the road surface. Victims might be pedestrians out for a walk or cyclists on a ride.
Tell us what happened and how your injury has affected your life. We can answer all of your questions about where your case should be directed.
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 Dispatch and its insurers must write for you and your family.
