Maison Law of Visalia represents victims hurt in accidents involving Amazon vans and trucks. When careless delivery drivers cause accidents, we hold Amazon fully responsible for all recovery costs.
Please contact our Visalia truck accident lawyers for a free case consultation. It’s a no-pressure, no-obligation way to get your questions answered. You should be aware of what your injuries are worth before Amazon tries to convince you they are worth nothing at all or very little.
How to Determine If You Need a Lawyer for Your Truck Accident Case
Victims left with serious injuries in a collision caused by an Amazon driver will usually earn a much better outcome with the help of a lawyer. Accidents involving expensive injuries like a broken bone or head trauma will see insurance companies fighting harder to avoid blame. The tactics they use can rob victims of valuable support or leave them with no support at all.
Amazon can also call in its own corporate lawyers to tear apart a victim’s case and even look to drop the blame on someone else.
Accident victims have the option to file a claim themselves, but a skilled attorney represents a shield against teams of lawyers and insurance tactics. A lawyer collects the evidence necessary to keep the blame on the truck driver and then puts pressure on Amazon to accept full responsibility for the consequences.
Taking Advantage of a Free Case Consultation After an Amazon Accident
You may still wonder if you have a case worth pursuing against Amazon. Knowing what your injury could be worth and what Amazon may be held accountable for can definitely help.
There’s an easy way to determine your next move. Contact us for a free case consultation and question-and-answer session. Let’s talk over what happened to you. If you don’t require our help to file your claim, we’ll tell you that.
But if we can help you earn more, you don’t have to worry about how you’ll afford to pay a lawyer at such a difficult time. Maison Law doesn’t charge anything unless we win your case for you. Then our pay comes out of the settlement check Amazon is forced to send to you.
Earning Support for Amazon Accident Victims in Tulare County
Amazon vans are found on every street in Visalia neighborhoods and across Tulare County. And the dangers they pose to other motorists are constant.
Delivery drivers have a lot to pay attention to as they determine their next stops and the best routes down streets like Mooney Boulevard and through neighborhoods along Mill Creek Drive.
When impacts occur, the combined weight of the packages Amazon employees carry also leads to more dangerous collisions. Victims can be left with serious and even life-threatening harm and wind up at Kaweah Health Medical Center.
Even the cost of a relatively standard broken arm can skyrocket with any complications. But these costs should never be the victim’s concern.
A lawyer would be preparing a full list of the victim’s economic and non-economic damages and then demand full compensation from Amazon.
These and other hardships must factor into any Amazon accident settlement check:
- Hospital and physical therapy expenses.
- Estimated costs associated with a long-term injury or permanent physical disability that are more common with powerful delivery van collisions.
- The hardship of dealing with chronic, physical pain.
- Emotional anguish suffered. The loss of enjoyment of life due to an injury. The loss of consortium (loss of intimacy with a spouse).
- Past and future lost wages at work during recovery.
- Property damage.
- Wrongful death benefits. Families who have suffered the ultimate tragedy can ask Amazon for help through a wrongful death claim. This claim seeks support for funeral costs. It also seeks to replace the income the deceased would have provided the family in the future. Emotional damages left for the family to cope with in the years ahead must also be factored in.
Determining Who Is Liable After an Amazon-Involved Car Accident
If an Amazon delivery driver in a rush strikes your vehicle along Highway 198 or hits you while you are walking in a crosswalk, you will probably be left with some questions.
After you get medical treatment and your injuries stabilize. You’ll have time to wonder who is responsible for paying your hospital invoices. Is it the driver or Amazon?
It will depend on who the driver actually works for…
Amazon Delivery Partners: Not everyone making deliveries for Amazon is a full-time employee. If a local company is working with Amazon to help with deliveries, that company will often have its own commercial accident insurance for its drivers. The driver’s personal coverage could also come into play. Amazon may kick in supplemental coverage in cases where the partner’s insurance money runs out.
Amazon Flex Drivers: These drivers are considered independent contractors; they will have to have their own personal car insurance. However, Amazon provides up to $1,000,000 in supplemental coverage, meant to kick in support if the driver’s policy reaches its limits.
Full-Time Amazon Delivery Workers: Amazon backs its full-time drivers with accident insurance that can go up to $1,000,000 in support. Most collisions involving the blue vans or an Amazon semi-truck from a distribution center would be settled by Amazon’s commercial truck insurance provider.
An experienced lawyer can help you work out who is responsible, and at times can file claims with multiple insurers.
Watching Out for Insurance Tactics from Amazon
Beware! Amazon can delay your support to try to get you to give up. Don’t!
They can also send a quick response, but this isn’t always a good sign. Amazon can hurry out a settlement offer to you when you don’t appear to have talked to a lawyer. It’ll likely be far less than you need to fully recover.
Amazon does this to get you to sign away your rights. Once you sign off on a settlement, you can’t go back to ask for more when you have injury flare-ups weeks or months down the road. Amazon has stuck you with the bills for all future complications.
Contact an Amazon Truck Accident Lawyer
Don’t forget that you can schedule a free, no-obligation case consultation with a real lawyer at any time. The injury claims process with Amazon and its lawyers can be very complex and frustrating. It’s especially draining to deal with Amazon if you are still trying to heal from a serious injury.
Allow one of our skilled lawyers to examine your case and determine where to direct your claim to get you the most support possible. Remember, if you need our help, we work on a contingency basis. It means there’s no upfront cost. We only get paid if we win your case for you. At that point, nothing comes out of your bank account. We are paid out of the settlement that Amazon must send to you.
Martin Gasparian, the founder of Maison Law, continues to represent and protect Visalia accident victims. Mr. Gasparian has years of experience taking on big companies like Amazon to make sure they are held accountable for their employees’ mistakes.
