Have you been involved in an accident? Are you a delivery driver?
If so, Grossman Law Offices can provide relief for your accident injuries.
A “delivery driver” injury refers to an employee who operates a motor vehicle in the course and scope of his employment and is injured. There a multiple aspects to these types of cases. One of the initial questions that must be asked is who or what caused the accident. Did another operator of a motor vehicle cause the accident? If so then a claim could be made against the other driver and his or her insurance company.
Simultaneously, the injured worker could have his medical bills covered by the Workers Compensation coverage that his employer has. In that event, the Workers Compensation carrier will have a right of subrogation against the insurance co of the defendant driver. Both the insurance company for the defendant driver and the injured worker have a legal obligation to pay back the Workers Compensation carrier.
Let’s discuss another scenario involving the delivery driver injury. What if the employer is responsible for the maintenance of the vehicle that the injured worker was driving, and the brakes go out. Now we have to go back to the question of whether or not the employer had Workers Compensation coverage or not. Please see our pages on “workers compensation” and “non subscriber cases” to obtain more detailed information with regard to why it is important to know the answer to this question.
If the employer does not have workers compensation coverage, then the injured employee has the right to sue his or her employer and the employer is limited to the primary defense of sole proximate cause. If the employer does have coverage, then the injured worker is limited to the monies available through the workers compensation act, unless death occurred.
What can a delivery driver accident attorney do for me?
The benefit of hiring Grossman Law Office in these types of cases is that multiple legal hurdles must be successfully navigated to obtain a favorable end result. Our Houston delivery driver injuries attorneys As previously discussed, who caused the accident is a critical question that we can help determine. Then, is there workers compensation coverage? We can help obtain the answers to these issues and then proceed down the correct legal path to obtain the most favorable to you.