In the last few years, ride-share companies like Uber or Lyft, have actually exploded throughout the country. The number of licensed cars for firms like Uber and Lyft quadrupled from 2014 to 2017. Ride-shares involve vehicle drivers that are spent for delivering passengers in the driver's very own vehicle at a reduced rate.
The Los Angeles Uber and Lyft accident attorneys at Mendez and Sanchez APC are committed to holding rideshare firms liable when their drivers' negligence causes an accident with injuries to passengers or various other drivers. If you or a family member were wounded in a car accident including an Uber or Lyft vehicle, we motivate you to contact our office for a totally free review of your legal options for recuperation.
One difficulty that is specific to rideshare accidents involves the unclear nature of financial responsibility. In the United States, companies are usually financially responsible for injuries and various other problems caused by their on-duty workers. But rideshare services do rule out conventional employers, and companies like Uber and Lyft have emphatically and repeatedly refuted that their vehicle drivers are "employees," but instead independent contractors. The drivers, these companies suggest, can work as little or as usually as they wish to, they have no direct supervisors to whom they report, they do not obtain benefits, and they are not eligible for workers' compensation.
Depending on what the vehicle driver was doing at the time of the rideshare accident, the quantity of added protection potentially available for recovery from the rideshare service can vary from nothing to as much as $1 Million. Therefore, it is absolutely essential for an injured party and/or the attorney that he or she has actually employed to acquire precise information and facts concerning when specifically a rideshare accident occurred since the impact on financial settlement could be considerable.
When a costly injury occurs as a result of a rideshare accident or auto accident, you may have a valid personal injury claim for negligence.
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