Maison Law helps injured California victims who have been struck by drivers for GoPuff Delivery. We hold drivers and their employer responsible and fight to make sure victims get their medical bills paid and their lost income replaced in full.
Please take advantage of a free case review with a real California rideshare 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.
When You Might Do Better With a Lawyer in Your Delivery Accident Case
If your accident only involves very minor injuries or just a smashed car, you might not need a lawyer’s help. But a serious injury racks up big hospital bills and a lot of income losses at your place of work if your injury keeps you away. These damages start to multiply and make car insurance companies and GoPuff lawyers fight harder to shed responsibility.
A California GoPuff car accident lawyer steps in and alerts GoPuff that they’ll be held fully accountable. A skilled lawyer would fully investigate the accident and the delivery driver involved. The evidence would be used to lock the blame in place and to force GoPuff to accept financial responsibility.
An experienced lawyer is especially helpful if your accident involves an injury like a broken wrist, arm, leg, chest bone, or any fracture elsewhere in the body. A lawyer would help if you have a long-term neck or back injury, including a serious case of whiplash. A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), including a severe concussion, might also signal the need for an aggressive lawyer.
You always have the right to file a claim yourself, but a Maison Law attorney can often earn you much more than you could by taking on GoPuff alone.
Earning Support from GoPuff and Car Insurance Companies
By taking photos on the scene of your accident (if the scene is secure), you can make it much harder for GoPuff to avoid blame or blame you for what happened. It’s also a good idea to get witness contact information to back up your case.
These and other details can help you when you file a claim and include a list of every hardship you’ve endured. This list can include the medical bills you’ve paid, the pain you’ve suffered, and the future difficulties doctors may warn that you’ll experience.
Your Maison Law attorney would seek these and other benefits on your behalf:
- Medical costs: This includes your ER visit, ambulance fees, hospital stay, surgery, physical therapy, medical equipment, medication, and any ongoing treatment you’ll need.
- Lost wages: If your injuries force you to miss work, you should receive reimbursement for every hour of income you lose. This can include a lifetime of support if a physical disability keeps you from ever going back to your old job.
- Property damage: The cost of getting your vehicle fixed or replaced.
- Pain and suffering: Not every cost is financial. This covers the physical pain and emotional stress caused by the accident.
- Loss of enjoyment of life: This is another emotional damage. If your injuries prevent you from participating in your favorite hobbies or even family activities, you should be able to recover damages for these losses.
- Wrongful death: If you lost a loved one in an accident caused by a delivery driver, California law allows certain family members to file a claim for funeral expenses, lost financial support, and emotional suffering.
Finding Out Who Is Responsible for Your Injuries After a GoPuff Accident
GoPuff drivers pick up customer orders from a centralized warehouse and deliver groceries, medicines, and other goods to the address as soon as possible. The process works a lot like an Amazon order, where the customer’s items are held at a fulfillment center and not picked up at a local grocery store.
However, the difference is that Amazon employs many full-time drivers, pays them, and backs them with liability insurance. Unfortunately, for GoPuff, it works differently. The company tries its best to keep drivers classified as independent contractors. This helps them avoid responsibility if drivers, in their own cars, ram someone on the way to a pick-up or delivery.
GoPuff requires its hires to show proof of having car insurance. If a driver hits another car, the victims would usually have to file a claim with the GoPuff driver’s personal auto insurance policy.
This can leave victims with problems for several reasons:
- Car Insurance Providers Rejecting Claims: Many car insurance companies will toss out claims when they find out a driver was working for GoPuff at the time of an impact. Delivery drivers would need to pay premiums on a commercial insurance policy to be able to provide full coverage. But they rarely do, because of the added expense. Victims can be left with zero support.
- Low limits. Even if a GoPuff driver’s insurer will cover the accident, the policy is often the bare minimum that California allows. This can mean the insurance limits are hit before the victim has paid for all of their medical bills and lost time at work.
GoPuff, a partner with Uber Eats, will deny any responsibility for the driver’s mistakes, but with a good lawyer at your side, you can prove that GoPuff should be covering your bills. GoPuff may be forced to accept some financial responsibility if the driver was on the clock (on the app) for the company at the time of an accident.
A lawyer may be critical in obtaining company logs and route data to show that the driver was working for GoPuff at the time of a crash. Maison Law can question the gig business’s safety practices. Our lawyers can investigate their hiring practices as well, perhaps showing that a more thorough background check might have identified a driver with a bad record.
Contact a California GoPuff Delivery Accident Attorney
The victims of a GoPuff accident have up to two years to file accident claims. But waiting is never the best idea. Talk to an attorney as soon as possible so that fresh evidence is still available and witnesses can still be tracked down.
We’re pleased to offer free consultations and case reviews to all California victims hurt by delivery drivers using the GoPuff app. Inexperienced and reckless drivers can put other motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists at extreme risk, and any delivery company needs to take full responsibility.
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 GoPuff and its insurers must write for you and your family.
