Rideshare And Food Delivery Accident Lawyer Video

Transcript

Wrecks involving rideshare companies are a little bit of a different animal. You know, recs involving Uber, Lyft, DoorDash. The rules are the same as applied to you and I as a driver, but where your lawyer looks for the recovery is the key. Now most drivers, they have the same type policy we have, which in Alabama is a minimum limits of $25,000 liability and that will apply. But what we do at McCutcheon and Hamner is we look beyond that and we look at the employer and this is how we do that. We look at the manner and method of control test. Now most of the time, DoorDash, Uber, they want to say, "You can't sue us." That driver is an independent contractor. We have no liability or responsibility for him, but that's not always the case. We look beyond that like I said. We look at the manner and method of control. Did DoorDash tell that driver, "This is where you're picking up, how you're picking up, where to deliver, how to receive payment, what to do with that payment?" If they did, we're going to argue that DoorDash had the right of control. And in our laws in Alabama, that removes that driver from being an independent contractor and we can pursue the employer or DoorDash or Uber or Lyft directly. So you're no longer limited to that small $25,000 recovery. And in cases of catastrophic injury, we all know that $25,000 is a drop in the bucket. So we look beyond that. We look for the million dollar recovery.