West Hollywood Uber Accident Lawyers

Brain damage is sadly common in car accident claims. Even a mild brain injury, such as a concussion, causes damage to your brain. More serious injuries can leave you with lasting physical symptoms (such as headaches) or cognitive deficits (such as difficulty paying attention). The most serious brain injuries can leave a victim unable to work, live alone, or even feed and bathe themself.

It takes a significant amount of money to compensate these injury victims for the dramatic losses they have suffered through no fault of their own. Whether your brain injury is mild or serious, temporary or permanent, you are entitled to fair compensation for all the ways it has affected your life.

Spinal cord injuries can also be incredibly serious. The most serious cases can result in partial or total paralysis. In addition to being unable to work or engage in any physical activity, the victim might be left unable to even use the bathroom independently. These indignities result in huge settlements for a wide range of losses.

But not all spinal cord injuries are this dramatic. Some spinal cord injuries can heal with surgical intervention or months of painful physical therapy. These treatments are both costly and painful. Victims often deal with lingering symptoms, such as numbness or tingling in their extremities.

Spinal cord injuries can also place victims at greater risk for future injuries or other medical complications. Your doctor may advise you to give up sports or other high-risk hobbies. These are very real losses, and they can drastically decrease your quality of life. Injury victims are entitled to compensation for these intangible losses and their financial losses.

Car accidents can injure many delicate structures within the body. Often, these involve “crush” injuries, in which the force of a collision crushes a vital organ. Crush injuries can also break vital blood vessels and cause internal bleeding. Crushed organs and internal bleeding can quickly become life-threatening conditions.

Unfortunately, these injuries do not always show symptoms right away. It can take hours for symptoms of a malfunctioning liver or pancreas to become obvious. A slow internal bleed can also take hours to cause enough blood loss to make the patient symptomatic. These injuries can initially be asymptomatic, so it is vital that all injury victims get checked out by a doctor after an accident.

Even if you feel “okay” after an accident, you could have internal injuries that could become life-threatening if you do not seek treatment. The sooner a physician diagnoses these injuries, the better your prognosis will be.

Whiplash is a common neck injury that often occurs in car accidents. If the neck is forced forward in a collision, it will naturally be jerked back after the initial impact, which causes a forceful motion like the crack of a whip. Whiplash can leave the victim in pain for days after an accident.

In many cases, the victim must simply bear the pain and let the neck heal itself in the days after an accident. Insurance companies are known to be dismissive of whiplash. Because there are no broken bones on an x-ray, overnight hospital stays, or other dramatic evidence, adjusters will often make a lowball settlement offer on whiplash cases. Our skilled car crash litigators at Arash Law headed by Arash Khorsandi, Esq. know how to prove the full extent of your losses – and just how painful whiplash can be.

The experience of whiplash is similar to many other soft tissue injuries. Injuries to the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and other non-bony body tissues are difficult to see. These are commonly sprains and strains that do not show up on an x-ray, but they can be incredibly painful and seriously disrupt your life after an Uber accident.

As with whiplash, claims adjusters do not always take these injuries as seriously as they should. Our Uber accident lawyers know how to prove the value of your physical pain, emotional suffering, lost sleep, work time, interrupted activities, and the general decrease in your quality of life after you suffer a soft tissue injury.

Scars and disfigurement present some unique challenges in claims negotiations. Because they often result in relatively low medical bills, insurance companies tend to value the pain and suffering associated with these injuries low as well. But scars and disfigurement can cause drastic changes in your life. Imagine that a concert pianist loses a finger in a car accident.

While many people could continue their work with only nine fingers, her career is over, and she suffers emotional and financial losses for the rest of her life. Though these injuries often have relatively low medical bills (sometimes as little as just a few stitches), they do cause significant pain and suffering. They also make dramatic evidence for a jury at trial.

When juries see a severed limb, or a disfigured face, or other visible losses, they understand the true nature of the victim’s pain and suffering. Our lawyers use this knowledge to negotiate fair settlement offers from claims adjusters. Insurance companies know that these dramatic injuries can cause them to lose at trial, so they are often willing to make a fair settlement offer and allow you to avoid court altogether.

Though it is not pleasant to think about, the grim reality is that assaults do happen in Ubers. Physical violence, sexual assault, and other types of crimes can lead to injuries. It is possible to hold Uber liable for the injuries you suffer from a preventable assault. For example: suppose that Uber allows a driver with multiple felony assault convictions to use its app.

This negligence places passengers at an increased risk of violence, so if the driver does indeed commit another assault, Uber could be held liable for its negligent screening processes. Sadly, this has become a particular issue with sexual assault and violence, which does occur to some Uber passengers. No victim should have to bear the financial costs of injuries sustained in an assault.

Our lawyers work with victims to secure compensation from the civil court. If you have questions about your legal rights in the criminal court as a victim, we can help you find the right lawyer for that, too. An assault in an Uber is not your fault. It is important to hold the company accountable for crimes that are facilitated through the use of its app.