A Lawyer’s Thoughts if You Happen to Get into an Accident in a Uber or Lyft
Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft have dominated the rideshare industry. Of course with the birth of ridesharing also came Uber and Lyft accidents, creating a muck of issues for Illinois to grapple with, given the commercial nature of the activity in personal vehicles. Responding accordingly, Illinois codified their Uber and Lyft law in a set of laws, known as the Transportation Network Providers Act (625 ILCS 57), found here. These laws include complex insurance rules that give rise whenever a rideshare accident occurs in Chicago and an Uber or Lyft passenger or driver thereafter suffers an injury. Reading the page Chicago Uber Accidents will give you more details regarding the insurance laws concerning Uber and Lyft in Chicago.
When determining whether you have a successful lawsuit against Uber or Lyft as a result of your accident, you need access to caselaw to distinguish and compare the facts of your case to other litigated matters arising from rideshare lawsuits. But first, one must analyze the issues of liability (legal terminology for fault) and damages, which will control the outcome of your Uber or Lyft accident case.
Properly determining these issues at the outset will set the tone and frame your story, whether as an Uber or Lyft user or driver, in the eyes of a jury, which is…