If you are injured in an accident involving a Speedster delivery vehicle, Maison Law wants to help you hold the driver and the driver’s employer fully responsible. That means getting your medical bills paid and having lost income reimbursed.
Reach out to our California truck accident lawyers and take advantage of a free case consultation. It’s a no-pressure way to find out what your injuries may be worth and how to hold a driver and a delivery business fully liable.
Knowing When You Could Earn More for Your Recovery with a Lawyer
When traffic accidents only involve very minor wounds or soreness, or just vehicle damage, a lawyer may not be needed. However, a collision with a loaded-down Speedster truck can cause much more serious injuries, and that’s when you may benefit from a lawyer’s assistance.
Maison Law can fully investigate your accident caused by a delivery driver and make sure insurers can’t blame the impact on you. Your lawyer can also fight back when insurers for Speedster drivers try to downplay how badly you’ve been hurt, simply to slash the amount of support you receive. The higher the medical bills, the more insurance adjusters and company lawyers try to attack your case and devalue your hardships.
A lawyer may be able to earn you much more for serious injuries like these and others:
- Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), including moderate to severe concussions
- Neck injuries, including a long-lasting case of whiplash
- Back injuries, including spinal column injuries with disc fractures and compressions
- Broken bones in the arms, legs, and elsewhere
- Tissue damage that tears or strains ligaments, tendons, and muscles
You can always file a claim yourself, but insurance companies can take advantage of you when you don’t know your full rights. They can get you to sign off on a quick settlement offer before you know the extent of what you’ll need to fully recover.
If You Aren’t Sure, Ask a Truck Accident Lawyer for Free
The best way to determine if you have a case against Speedster, and if you need a lawyer, is to schedule a free case consultation with a real truck accident lawyer.
Martin Gasparian, the founder of Maison Law, has a long track record of winning support for clients in need after a scary accident. He knows when delivery companies should be providing more support for you. Mr. Gasparian can also help you if you’ve already started the claims process and are unhappy with what an insurer is offering you for your pain.
The Type of Support We Win For Our Clients
The old saying “you don’t know until you ask,” applies to an insurance claim. You should be seeking support for every hardship you’ve endured since your accident. Anything you don’t ask for is something the insurers backing Speedster can ignore.
Your attorney would make sure a full list of your damages is sent in along with your submitted claim. A truck accident settlement claim must compensate both economic damages, like doctor bills, and non-economic damages, like the emotional difficulties you suffer while you are down with an injury.
- Medical bills: The bills that have already arrived and the cost of any care you’re expected to need in the years to come.
- Permanent disability or disfigurement: Money for the long-term physical therapy and medical equipment needed. Compensation for career training if you can’t go back to your old job. Enough to pay for house renovations to make living with a disability easier. Plastic surgery costs to restore your appearance.
- Wrongful death: After the tragic loss of life in a truck-involved accident, the family should receive support for funeral and burial costs and for paying the remaining hospital bills. The love and financial support the deceased can no longer provide in the coming years must also factor into a settlement check for loved ones.
- Physical pain and emotional trauma: The level of pain experienced in a collision and during recovery factors into compensation. A scary crash with a large delivery vehicle will also leave emotional scars. You should receive support for the depression and anxiety that a difficult injury rehab causes. The PTSD symptoms leftover from the moment of impact in an accident must also earn support.
- Loss of income: The wages and benefits you’ve given up by having to miss work hours due to your injuries.
Speedster Delivery Vehicle Accident Dangers
Speedster provides a handy app for California businesses to help with their supply chains. They request deliveries at any time or day and select the size vehicle they need to move products and supplies.
It’s a Gig business, which is known for providing an app allowing businesses to find freelance workers for short-term jobs. For Speedster, the jobs usually involve taking items from Point A to Point B.
In Gig businesses, workers are considered independent contractors. With Speedster, drivers who sign up to work would usually need to have their own vehicles (trucks, vans, cars) to use on the job.
It’s a helpful system for some, but it also puts a lot of untested drivers on California boulevards behind the wheel of large, weighed-down vehicles. These vehicles can be harder to stop, especially when they’re going fast. They can also cause more powerful impacts with the cargo weight behind them.
It’s a real threat on freeways when drivers get careless or reckless.
These are just a few of the ways drivers can spark collisions:
- Distracted driving as they get texts from businesses or just simply want to check social media
- Reckless driving as Speedster drivers feel deadline pressure and go faster or drive more aggressively
- Drowsy drivers, if workers don’t get breaks while on a long trip, or if they didn’t sleep the night before
- Delivery workers under the influence of a drug or alcohol while at the wheel
In California, commercial drivers are under stricter alcohol limits than normal motorists. If they are found to have a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) at .04% or more, they can be charged with DUI.
A delivery driver may have broken several laws and made several bad choices, but if there’s no evidence of what really happened, innocent drivers can get falsely blamed. A lawyer helps build a case with strong evidence and can bring in accident reconstruction teams to illustrate what actually caused a collision.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Speedster Delivery Drivers Have Insurance?
Speedster is a Gig business, meaning it connects businesses and individuals with delivery drivers for short-term jobs through a digital platform. Those who accept delivery jobs must use their own vehicles and have their own personal insurance. Victims hurt in an accident involving a Speedster truck would need to file a claim with the driver’s personal insurance first. Speedster does everything it can to avoid liability, but it can be held responsible if a driver’s insurance refuses to accept responsibility or if the insurance money isn’t enough to cover all the victims’ recovery costs (drivers would usually have the bare minimum in coverage). A skilled lawyer can make sure Speedster accepts liability for its business practices and helps victims in need.
How long do I have to file an injury claim after a delivery vehicle hits me?
Two years. You usually can’t file a claim once two years have passed since your truck accident. You should speak with an attorney as soon as possible, though. This will give your lawyer time to collect evidence before it disappears.
What if I can’t afford to pay a lawyer right after a serious accident?
You can always afford the protection and security Maison Law offers. We don’t ask for any payment unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement check that an insurance company must write for you and your family.
Contact a California Speedster Delivery Accident Attorney
We’re pleased to offer free consultations and case reviews to all California victims hurt by a Speedster driver’s mistake. Tell us what happened and how your injury has affected your life. We can answer all of your questions.
If we can’t help you earn more, we’ll tell you that and provide information on filing a successful claim yourself. But if we can help you earn more for your case, we’ll explain why and begin building a strong case for you.
