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Uber rideshare drivers and their vehicles get into countless car and pedestrian accidents across the country every day. Fortunately, Uber has a liability policy with over $1 million in coverage to compensate rideshare passengers and other drivers. If you are seriously injured due to the negligence of an Uber driver, the accident attorneys at Miller & Zois can help you get the maximum amount of compensation for your injury claim against Uber.

Common Causes of Uber Rideshare Car Accidents

Uber drivers are very commonplace these days. They have basically replaced taxi cabs is most areas of the country. The large number of Uber rideshare drivers on the roads means that they are involved in car accidents with increasing frequency.

How fast am I driving?

The one thing defendants (and plaintiffs, for that matter) consistently screw up at deposition is time, speed, and distance calculations. They don’t know how fast they are driving and, if they do, they don’t screw it up with their time distance calculation.

• Learn more about crash speed calculations and how they are used in car accident cases

This is a sample demand letter in a relatively small case with approximately $18,000 in medical bills.

But this personal injury car accident case settled for a lot more money than any kind of simple multiplier of medical bills.

This “times special damages math” where you try to determine a settlement amount with a formula is dangerous. It often causes plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers (and victims) to substantially undervalue a claim.

• More accident letter samples
• Soft tissue injury cases: the opportunities, challenges, and settlement amounts

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We buy car insurance hoping we never need to go through the process of submitting a claim. When accidents happen, we hope the claims process is smooth and simple.  Seems like a reasonable expectation because you or the at-fault driver paid your premium every month in a way that made it smooth and simple for the insurance company.  But it does not work that way, right?

There are several reasons that your claim may be denied. This denial can often cause a significant financial strain on you and your family. . If you’ve recently been in a car accident, you may be counting on the money from the insurance claim to pay medical and other bills.

If your claim has been denied, you need to figure out quickly why and what you can do to get the money you deserve.

Medicare continues to make efforts to try, post Haro v. Sebelius, to make for an easier solution for dealing with Medicare liens. The latest? In very small cases, they are more likely to be handled by injury victims themselves as opposed to personal injury lawyers, Medicare will offer a 25% gross payment alternative to dealing with Medicare on a lien.

It is certainly not the deal of a lifetime by any stretch. More importantly, it is only for cases that do not exceed $5,000. But the option applies in:

• Cases after November 7, 2011
• Involve physical injury
• $5,000 or less
• The option is selected in a to-be-determined time frame
• Medicare has yet to make a final demand
• The beneficiary does not expect to receive future third party injury payments

If these conditions are satisfied, a beneficiary will resolve and satisfy Medicare’s lien by paying Medicare 25% of the insurance settlement. While the primary application will now, more than likely, be small soft tissue car accident claims, a successful run might lead to larger scale implementation down the road.

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