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Rideshare cases are not car accident cases. Whether $1,000,000 of coverage is available or $50,000 comes down to one thing: what the driver's app was doing at the moment of impact. We prove it.
THE SHORT VERSION
Who pays: the at-fault driver's insurer, plus Uber or Lyft's policy if the rideshare driver was on an active trip.
Coverage on an active trip: $1,000,000 third-party liability, plus $1,000,000 uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage.
Deadline: 2 years in CA, AZ and TX; 3 years in CO for motor-vehicle claims and in NM — but footage can be gone in 14 days.
Cost to hire us: $0 up front, no fee unless we win.
THE RULE THAT DECIDES YOUR CASE
Both companies divide coverage into three periods. The insurer's first move is to argue you fall in the cheapest one. These are the figures Uber and Lyft publish for the United States.
Coverage amounts reflect Uber and Lyft's published U.S. insurance policies and can change. Verify the policy in force on your date of loss — we request the declarations page in every case.
The strongest position in the case. You are almost never at fault, and on an active trip the $1M policy is available no matter which driver caused it.
Hit by an Uber or Lyft. Your claim depends entirely on the app status we can document from trip records.
Struck near a pickup or drop-off, often mid-block. Distracted-driver evidence lives in the app data.
Injured while driving for the platform. You may have UM/UIM coverage through the app you did not know existed.
OUR PROCESS
Rideshare evidence is digital, owned by a corporation, and set to expire. Speed is the case.
Start the clock in your favorTrip logs, driver app status, GPS breadcrumbs, in-app messages and telematics — demanded in writing before routine deletion.
Doorbell cameras, business security systems, transit and city cameras. Most overwrite in 14 to 30 days. We knock on doors.
Every policy that could pay: the rideshare layers, the driver's personal policy, your own UM/UIM, MedPay and health coverage — stacked in the right order.
We get you treating with providers who will wait to be paid, and every insurance call routes to us from that point on.
$5.5M
RIDESHARE RECOVERY
The carrier insisted the driver was offline and offered the personal policy limits. App records and trip data proved an active ride in progress, which opened the $1,000,000 liability layer — and the settlement went well past it once we documented the full extent of our client's injuries.
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Answered plainly, by lawyers who handle these claims — not summarized from someone else's blog.
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