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Whether you take an Uber home from a night out in Downtown El Centro, schedule a ride in a Lyft to the airport, or simply want to save yourself the trouble of driving to and from a medical appointment at El Centro Regional Medical Center, there is no doubt that ridesharing can add convenience to your life. Like any trip in a passenger vehicle, however, traveling by rideshare comes with a risk of getting into an accident.
Victims of motor vehicle accidents involving rideshares in El Centro can suffer a wide range of severe and debilitating injuries. In the aftermath of an accident, those victims often feel uncertain about where to turn for help and guidance in securing compensation to pay for medical bills, lost wages at work, and their overall physical and emotional pain.
Gomez Trial Attorneys can help. We represent El Centro residents, workers, and visitors in legal actions seeking money damages for injuries and losses suffered in rideshare-related accidents. Contact our El Centro Ridesharing Lawyers today for a free consultation to learn about your rights.
Injured in an accident? Get a real trial lawyer. Get Gomez.
The nationally-recognized lawyers at Gomez Trial Attorneys make it their mission to advocate for victims of accidents and incidents caused by someone else’s wrongful, dangerous conduct. Representing El Centro residents, workers, and visitors who suffer injuries in rideshare accidents constitutes an important, growing part of our law practice.
In our years of fighting for justice on behalf of accident victims, we have developed a deep well of knowledge about the ins-and-outs of pursuing full and fair compensation in connection with rideshare accidents. We cannot guarantee that our clients will recover money when they hire us, but we can promise that they will have lawyers on their side who know how to get results in even the most complicated cases against the most well-funded defendants and insurance companies.
Clients seek the help of the experienced lawyers at Gomez Trial Attorneys after suffering injuries in rideshare accidents in a variety of scenarios.
Among the most common:
No matter how you suffered an injury in an El Centro rideshare accident, however, our team has the skill and resources to hold the parties at-fault to account for the harm their actions caused.
Victims of El Centro rideshare accidents can suffer a wide range of life-altering, and even fatal, injuries, for which they and their loved ones deserve significant compensation.
Common injuries for which our firm seeks compensation on clients’ behalf include:
At Gomez Trial Attorneys, our lawyers understand the trauma and difficulty that rideshare accidents can inflict on victims and their loved ones. Our team possesses detailed knowledge of the wide range of injuries our clients can suffer, and we put that knowledge to work in seeking maximum compensation to meet our clients’ current and future financial and medical needs.
No one wants to get injured in an El Centro rideshare-related accident. Those who do, however, can often seek compensation for their injuries and losses from relatively large insurance policies that California law requires rideshare drivers to carry.
Under the law, in addition to the ordinary auto insurance that all Californians must purchase, rideshare drivers or the companies they drive for must also carry:
In other words, victims of El Centro rideshare accidents and incidents may have potentially significant amounts of additional insurance coverage to help them pay for their injuries and losses. However, as the rules above describe, the availability of that coverage depends in large part on the driver’s status in connection to the rideshare app at the time of the crash or other incident. The distinctions between a driver who is logged-in as compared to not logged-in, or to a driver who has accepted a ride or not, can mean the difference between a full financial recovery and one that falls short of what a victim needs.
At Gomez Trial Attorneys, we know how to find and secure the evidence necessary to establish a driver’s status at the time of our clients’ injuries, so that our clients can benefit from every dollar of insurance coverage available to them as victims of an El Centro rideshare accident.
The extra insurance required of rideshare companies and their drivers under California law often provides the bulk of compensation to our clients who suffer injuries and losses in rideshare accidents and incidents. However, that does not make rideshare insurance the exclusive source of payment for our clients’ damages.
Other legally liable parties may also share legal liability to our clients. In fact, under California law, virtually anyone whose unreasonably dangerous decisions or actions cause an El Centro rideshare accident or other harmful incident can owe damages to a victim.
For example:
The lawyers at Gomez Trial Attorneys know that although rideshare insurance can serve as an important source of payment of our clients’ damages, it’s our job to find any existing other sources.
Clients of Gomez Trial Attorneys often want to know what kind of damages they may have the right to receive as compensation for their injuries and losses in an El Centro rideshare accident or incident.
Every case is different, of course, but in an insurance claim or legal action for damages our clients can typically seek to secure payment for:
At Gomez Trial Attorneys, we work closely with our clients to understand the full impact an El Centro rideshare accident or incident has had on their lives, livelihoods, and families. Then, we get to work seeking to secure the maximum compensation available to them under California law and their particular circumstances.
In an ideal world, victims of El Centro rideshare accidents could simply request payment from a rideshare driver’s insurance coverage and expect to receive full and fair compensation within a matter of days. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world. Instead, in reality, it takes legal skill and practical know-how to secure insurance money and other compensation to help pay for injuries and losses in an El Centro rideshare accident.
The rideshare accident lawyers at Gomez Trial Attorneys possess that skill and know-how.
Although every case we handle for a rideshare accident or incident victim in El Centro differs, our team generally can:
As we said, we can never guarantee that our clients will receive full compensation for their El Centro rideshare accident injuries. However, we can promise to serve our clients’ interests above all others, and to commit the full resources of our firm to seeing justice done on our clients’ behalf.
Victims of El Centro rideshare accidents and incidents who reach out to Gomez Trial Attorneys for help tend to want answers to a host of important, pressing questions concerning their legal and financial rights. Our team is always happy to answer questions for injured victims and their family members.
Below you will find general answers to the most frequently asked of those questions. For answers to your specific questions about an El Centro rideshare accident or incident that harmed you or a loved one, contact Gomez Trial Attorneys today.
The best way to know if you have legal rights to compensation after you or a loved one gets hurt in an El Centro rideshare accident or incident is to speak to an experienced rideshare injury lawyer from Gomez Trial Attorneys.
In the meantime, you can feel reasonably certain that you have a right to damages if you were harmed in an accident or incident involving a rideshare in El Centro if you know or suspect that the harm you suffered was caused by another’s careless or dangerous actions.
In general, that’s virtually always the case if you suffered injuries as a rideshare passenger, as a pedestrian or cyclist struck by a rideshare vehicle, or if a rideshare driver assaulted or otherwise intentionally harmed you. It’s also commonly the case if you suffered injuries as a driver or passenger of another vehicle that got into an accident with a rideshare vehicle.
Not really. Seeking compensation from someone else’s liability insurance policy—including the extra rideshare insurance described above—differs from filing a claim with your own insurance carrier. You are not the liability insurance company’s customer, so the company has little reason to make things easy for you. Instead, liability insurance companies will do their best to challenge or undercut the value of your claim at every opportunity, because that saves them money and increases their bottom line.
At Gomez Trial Attorneys, we recommend against individuals trying to pursue compensation from someone else’s liability insurance company on their own. It’s just not a fair fight. Insurance adjusters who work for liability insurers will use every trick in the book to try to stiff El Centro rideshare accident victims. The victims, on the other hand, many of whom are recovering from serious injuries, rarely know the rules and risk making costly errors.
To level the playing field, hire an experienced El Centro rideshare injury attorney, like the team at Gomez Trial Attorneys, to represent you in every interaction with a liability insurance company. We speak insurance adjusters’ language. We know the tricks of their trade, and we don’t let them get away with anything short of fair and honest dealing when it comes to paying our clients.
It depends on the particular facts and circumstances of your case.
Generally speaking, the value of a claim for damages depends on:
As you might sense from the factors above, the value of your case also depends to a large degree on the quality of the lawyer you have working on your behalf. Choose a skilled rideshare accident injury law firm with the resources and know-how to get you results; a firm like Gomez Trial Attorneys, in other words.
That depends.
First, there is no guarantee you will get paid. Hiring an experienced El Centro rideshare attorney to represent you, however, gives you the best shot at a favorable outcome.
Even if you have a successful claim for damages for the injuries and losses you suffered in an El Centro rideshare accident or incident, the timetable can vary widely.
Factors affecting the timeline of a case include:
Neither you nor your lawyer can do much to control the timeline of an El Centro rideshare injury case. You do, however, have complete control over one of the most important aspects of the duration of your claim: when you speak with an experienced rideshare injury attorney for the first time. Take that all-important step as soon as possible, so that the rest of the process can get underway.
No way.
Never accept any offer of payment in exchange for avoiding insurance claims. Doing so can damage your rights to seek compensation through a lawsuit. It may also violate the law.
More generally, at Gomez Trial Attorneys, we encourage any El Centro rideshare injury victim to say “no, thanks” to any offer of payment or settlement made directly to them, no matter if it’s made by a rideshare driver or by an insurance company.
Quick settlement offers virtually always fall far short of the amount of money rideshare injury victims need and deserve under California law. Agreeing to any settlement offer usually requires the victim to give up important legal rights to sue for damages in the future. In other words, a settlement is a one-shot-deal. Agree to the wrong amount of money, and you could end up getting short-changed.
Leave it to an experienced El Centro rideshare injury lawyer to negotiate all settlements on your behalf. In our experience at Gomez Trial Attorneys, our involvement in negotiations on a clients’ behalf virtually always results in a larger settlement payment than what a party or its insurance company offered our clients directly.
If you hire us, it won’t cost you anything unless we get you results.
First, an initial consultation with an experienced El Centro rideshare lawyer at Gomez Trial Attorneys does not cost you a penny. Lawyers for victims of El Centro rideshare accidents understand that their clients frequently face extreme financial hardship after suffering injuries. The last thing clients can afford is to pay an attorney just to talk to them about whether they have a case. That is why we always meet with potential clients for no charge—we want to make it as easy and risk-free as possible for anyone to come talk to us about their injuries and legal rights.
Next, lawyers who agree to represent El Centro rideshare accident victims virtually always do so on a contingent fee basis. This is an arrangement in which the lawyer’s only fee consists of a percentage of any money the lawyer secures on a client’s behalf. The client pays nothing to the lawyer at the beginning of the case or as it goes along. In other words, the lawyer only gets paid if the client gets paid.
By working on a contingent fee basis, we make it possible for anyone who needs our legal skills and resources to afford them. Never let your concerns about money keep you from talking to an experienced El Centro rideshare injury lawyer about whether you have a claim.
Yes, you can, and it’s simple: always seek medical attention and always do what your doctor says.
Sometimes, El Centro residents, workers, or visitors skip seeking medical attention after a rideshare accident or incident. Maybe they do so because they think they escaped the accident without injury. Maybe they think their injuries are too minor to merit a doctor visit. Or, maybe they just hate going to the doctor.
No matter the reasons, not seeking medical care is a potentially costly mistake. To begin, accident victims tend not to have the ability to assess the severity of their injuries. The stress of getting into an accident can mask pain, and some serious injuries do not always show symptoms right away. Going to the doctor immediately after a rideshare accident protects crash victims’ health by allowing a trained medical professional to spot and begin treating all injuries, before they get worse.
Seeking medical attention as soon as possible also serves the important purpose of documenting the connection between an El Centro rideshare accident and the victim’s injuries. The records the doctor creates become critical evidence to prove the scope of the injuries for which the victim deserves compensation.
Finally, visiting the doctor and doing what the doctor says protects the victim against claims by insurance companies and defense lawyers that the victim’s inaction or inattention made injuries worse.
We may have additional advice to give El Centro rideshare injury victims about other things they can do to protect their legal and financial rights. However, medical care is the most critical step to take. After you receive it, reach out to us, and let’s talk about what else you might do.
El Centro Rideshare Accident Attorney, John Gomez
At Gomez Trial Attorneys, we wish that rideshare accidents did not happen in El Centro, but they do. In their aftermath, injured victims and their families need steady, experienced guidance to help protect and enforce their potentially-valuable legal rights to compensation.
The extra insurance required of rideshare companies and their drivers under California law can represent a significant source of payment of accident victims’ damages. However, victims and their families must act quickly. Waiting to speak with an attorney can put your rights at risk, and may result in you losing your ability to seek compensation altogether.
At Gomez Trial Attorneys, we fight day-in, day-out to make sure that innocent victims of El Centro rideshare accidents and incidents receive the full value of compensation they need and deserve. Our attorneys know where to locate evidence critical to a rideshare case, and how to stand up to the powerful rideshare insurance companies who angle to avoid their obligations to accident victims.
If you or your loved one suffered injuries or losses in an El Centro rideshare accident or incident, contact Gomez Trial Attorneys online or at 866-TRIAL LAW (866 874-2552) for your free case consultation.
Injured in an accident? Get a real trial lawyer. Get Gomez
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2299 West Adams Avenue, Suite 102
El Centro, CA 92243
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