Victims injured in accidents caused by Amazon delivery drivers can seek support from the driver’s car insurance and Amazon. Maison Law of Porterville helps victims seek full compensation to pay their medical bills and replace the paychecks they lose while missing work.
We provide a free, no-obligation consultation for all local injury victims. It’s a no-risk opportunity to find out what an injury is worth and how to hold Amazon responsible.
Should I Call a Lawyer After an Accident with an Amazon Van?
After an impact caused by an Amazon driver, the level of your injuries will determine if you can benefit from securing the help of a lawyer.
If a crash only results in property damage and very minor injuries, you can likely file your claim on your own and receive fair compensation. But if you suffer a serious injury like a broken bone or a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), it’s a good idea to discuss your options with a skilled Porterville Truck Accident Lawyer.
Amazon and its corporate lawyers can try to blame you for an accident or downplay your injuries to avoid having to reimburse you for growing hospital bills. Your attorney fights back by fully investigating what happened and gathering evidence that can’t be ignored. Once your innocence is firmly established, your lawyer can often work to get you much more in an accident settlement than you could win from Amazon yourself.
Does Amazon Provide Insurance to Its Delivery Drivers?
Yes. Amazon drivers are protected by a commercial truck insurance policy with a limit of one million dollars. It’s a strong policy, but Amazon doesn’t always make it easy for victims to draw from it. Victims injured may have been passengers in cars. They may have been pedestrians or cyclists, or someone on a motorcycle. These victims should get help without a hassle.
Unfortunately, Amazon will have lawyers and insurance adjusters all paid to try to limit what victims and their families receive by questioning the facts of the case. They may reject a Porterville police accident report and try to blame someone in a car. Amazon might also cast doubt on the seriousness of your injuries. The corporation may find its own doctors who will say your injuries will have no long-lasting effects.
They’ll also purposely withhold their response to your injury claim, simply to make you wait and let your desperation grow. You’ll be watching more and more medical bills arrive at a time when you may not be able to go to work to earn a paycheck. Amazon hopes your fears of bankruptcy will make you desperate enough to accept any “lowball” insurance offer they present.
Your lawyer is your safeguard against this unfair treatment. Your lawyer makes inquiries into the Amazon employee’s driving record and Amazon’s training methods and corporate expectations for drivers.
Maison Law gets aggressive on behalf of our clients. We help you examine every settlement offer and help you reject them and demand more if there’s simply not enough there for you to rebuild your life. We also always prepare for a lawsuit if it becomes necessary to hold a major corporation liable in court.
Amazon Van Hazards for Porterville Residents
Blue vans can be seen rushing into local neighborhoods all day long. You may see them on Henderson Avenue or ducking into communities along Plano Street. It’s handy to get those deliveries, but it’s also added traffic on busy and quiet roads around town.
The vans themselves cause elevated accident and injury risk. They will carry more force into a collision when they are loaded with boxes. Their weight will make braking take longer. Their shape is also dangerous because the edges of trucks can ram further into vulnerable cars, leading to more harm to occupants.
Amazon drivers are also part of the problem. Many of the employees work to be as safe as possible on area streets. But they also have many worries while working and behind the wheel.
These are just a few of the reasons Amazon vans end up involved in major accidents:
- Driving recklessly and speeding to meet job goals and expectations.
- Staring at cellphones and handheld computers for delivery information and mapping guidance.
- Drowsy and exhausted drivers who aren’t given or forced to take enough breaks.
- Amazon drivers impaired by alcohol or drugs.
- Amazon drivers who don’t get proper background checks for bad driving records.
- Amazon’s failure to properly train drivers and policies that push drivers to act unsafely.
How Much is an Amazon Accident Injury Worth?
Giving you a reliable estimate on what you may earn from Amazon will be impossible until Maison Law has heard from you. Every case is different, so our lawyers will need to hear about what happened by talking to you and by investigating the accident.
Not every injury follows a normal recovery time. And victims all heal at their own pace. Your lawyer would be talking to your doctors about how long recovery will take. Estimates on any care you may need in the coming years would also be critical to determining how much in support Amazon should owe.
These are just a few of the factors that will determine how much your lawyer will demand from Amazon.
- Totals on hospital and rehabilitation expenses.
- Estimated costs associated with a long-term injury or permanent physical disability.
- Money to help you cope with chronic, physical pain.
- Money to help you get help with emotional trauma left over by a scary collision. This would include the loss of enjoyment of life due to an injury.
- Replacement of income you’ve had to say goodbye to while you can’t work.
- The cost of repairing or replacing a car.
- Wrongful death benefits. A family who has lost a loved one to an Amazon driver’s mistake is encouraged to file a wrongful death claim. This claim asks Amazon for help with funeral costs. It also seeks to replace the income the deceased would have provided the family in the future. The love and care the deceased can no longer provide to loved ones in the future must also be considered in a settlement.
Contact a Porterville Amazon Delivery Accident Attorney
You are generally given up to two years to file a personal injury claim over an accident in California. But you shouldn’t wait years to file. When you wait months or years, evidence can become harder to obtain. It might mean that witnesses are more difficult to find. Surveillance video showing a collision may get erased. Turn your case over to a skilled attorney as soon as possible.
If you have been seriously injured or lost a loved one due to a careless Amazon driver’s actions, contact Maison Law for a free accident consultation. It’s a no-risk way to find out how much you should demand from insurance companies and how to force those at fault to accept responsibility.
There’s no obligation when you meet with us, but if you feel we can earn you more, you don’t have to worry about how you’ll afford a lawyer. Maison Law doesn’t get paid unless we win your case. Then our fee comes out of the settlement money Amazon is forced to give you.
