Car accidents prove traumatizing enough when you or a loved one are behind the wheel. How are you supposed to react, though, when a Lyft driver hits you, or you’re in a Lyft that gets in an accident? The loss of control you feel in the wake of such an accident can end up compounding on itself, making it all the more difficult for you to recover.
Summerlin Lyft accident lawyers understand how complicated life can seem after these accidents. Even if you want to take action against the party responsible for your accident, who takes the blame? Anthem Injury Lawyers can help you break down questions about liability, present evidence of negligence to a judge, and demand the compensation you need to recover.
Why Should You File a Rideshare Accident Claim?
The process of filing a rideshare accident claim against a negligent driver or, in some cases, a corporation can seem intimidating if you’ve never interacted with civil law before. There are benefits, though, to taking the leap. When you file a personal injury claim against the party responsible for your Lyft accident, you can:
Control Your Case
Police officers, insurance adjusters, and corporations like Lyft all want to have a say when it comes time for you to describe your accident. Unfortunately, all of these parties can misrepresent the negligence that led to your crash in the first place. If you let these parties control the narrative around your accident, you may lose your right to compensation.
Filing a rideshare accident claim doesn’t establish a canonical narrative for your case. It does, however, allow you to present a judge and jury with evidence establishing the nature of your accident and your subsequent right to damages. When you give yourself a chance to control your case, you protect yourself from other parties’ bad intentions.
Secure Damages
Recovering from a Lyft accident can prove expensive. While your insurance can help you contend with some of your more immediate losses, why should you be held responsible for damage that someone else caused? When you file a personal injury claim, you can demand that the party liable for your accident take financial responsibility for that damage.
You specifically have the right to demand economic and non-economic damages based on the losses you endured in your Lyft accident. Those damages can cover your:
- Hospital stay
- Emergency medical treatment
- Long-term recovery
- Medical aids and pain relief
- Lost wages
- Property damage, repair, and replacement
- Emotional distress
- Pain and suffering
- Mental anguish
If you get into a Lyft accident that proves fatal for one or more parties, you may also have the right to demand wrongful death compensation in your complaint. You can discuss your right to either a wrongful death lawsuit or wrongful death compensation with an attorney in the days following your accident.
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When to File a Rideshare Accident Claim
If you decide that you want to file a rideshare accident claim against the party liable for your recent accident, you need to do so within Nevada’s statute of limitations. Nevada Revised Statutes Section 11.190.(4)(e) dictates that accident victims must submit their claims to a civil judge by the second anniversary of their accident.
You cannot take more than two years to investigate your losses. If you do, and you allow your statute of limitations to expire, a court can throw out your case without due consideration.
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Who to Name Liable in a Rideshare Accident Claim
Your right to name a party liable for your Lyft accident losses depends on your role in your accident. For example, if you were a rideshare passenger, you can name Lyft the corporation and another driver responsible for your recovery. If an on-duty Lyft driver hit you, the corporation may also have to take the blame for your losses.
That said, Lyft does not offer insurance or legal protection to off-duty drivers. What’s more, the company has specific expectations it wants its drivers to meet if they want to qualify for that protection. If Lyft determines that its driver wasn’t on duty at the time of your accident, you may have to hold that individual driver independently responsible for your losses.
Our Summerlin Lyft accident attorneys can break down the interplay of evidence versus contracts when we begin to investigate your losses.
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Should an Attorney Help You Investigate Your Rideshare Accident?
You have the right to independently bring your rideshare accident case forward in Nevada’s civil courts. That doesn’t mean that you should move forward without an attorney’s guidance, though. Attorneys can help you communicate with the parties involved in your case without compromising your right to compensation. Our team can also:
- Investigate your case while you recover from accident-related injuries
- Analyze the evidence most relevant to your demand for damages
- Estimate the total value of your case
- Prevent insurance adjusters from undervaluing your losses in settlement negotiations
- Communicate with a liable party on your behalf
- Keep you on top of relevant civil court deadlines
You have a right to ask any and all questions you may have about an attorney’s services before you initiate a Lyft accident case. You can schedule a case evaluation to learn more about the services our attorneys make available to someone in your shoes.
Work With an Attorney Who Prioritizes Your Financial Wellbeing
Recovering from a Lyft accident can drain your bank account. Don’t work with attorneys who charge you exorbitant fees before they’ve even investigated your case. Anthem Injury Lawyers work on contingency. This means that we won’t get paid unless we win your case, and you won’t have to deal with legal expenses while your case progresses.
Learn more about our contingency fee agreements during your initial case evaluation with our Lyft accident attorneys in Summerlin, NV.
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Anthem Injury Lawyers Stand With You
You trust a Lyft driver with your safety the moment you step into their car. If that driver puts you in harm’s way, you can sue them. You can similarly take legal action against a Lyft driver if they hit you while you’re in a different vehicle. It’s easiest to initiate this legal action, though, when you have an attorney to help you make sense of the contracts that can impact your case.
Let Anthem Injury Lawyers know when you’ve been involved in a Nevada-based Lyft accident. Our Lyft accident attorneys in Summerlin can investigate your losses and help you demand equivalent damages. You can request a case evaluation from our experienced team by contacting us online or over the phone.
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