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CAUTION: Insurance Coverage for Uber, Lyft, and Other Rideshare Drivers

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:01:14 +0000

PLEASE TAG YOUR RIDESHARE FRIENDS AND SHARE WITH RIDESHARE GROUPS.

I am Tray Gober-

An Austin, Texas personal injury lawyer AND “weekend warrior” Uber driver.

If you are in an auto accident (whether you are driving for Uber at the time or not) you need to contact a personal injury attorney.

I represent several Uber drivers involved in auto accidents. This week an Uber-driver client was in a car accident while driving his car at a time when he was NOT driving for Uber. He called his personal auto insurance company to start a property damage claim and was asked by his insurance company – “Have you ever driven for Uber?” Wanting to give an honest answer; he answered that he was not driving for Uber at the time of the accident, but that he does occasionally drive for Uber. As a result of his answer his insurance company is retroactively canceling his insurance policy and refusing to pay for damages done to his car.

On one level this is not surprising…insurance companies do whatever they can to reduce, deny and delay claims processing. But this is a sudden change of policy to retroactively cancel a policy because at some time in the past that insured drove for Uber.

What’s worse is the insurance coverage provided by Uber is only active when you are online ready to accept rides, driving to a rider, or driving a rider. So in his case Uber’s insurance is not (and should not) be on the hook to cover his accident. This will effectively leave him without insurance for his accident.

So what is a rideshare driver to do so that this doesn’t happen to you?

Get insurance coverage that will cover you even though you also drive for rideshare. Some of the larger carries are now offering this coverage in some markets. A local personal injury lawyer may be able to direct you to a carrier that provides coverage (any Uber driver in Texas could contact me 512.800.8000 for free and I can direct you)
If you are in an accident TALK TO A PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER BEFORE YOU TALK TO ANY INSURANCE COMPANY. If you are in an accident in Texas feel welcome to call me for a free consultation: 512.800.8000. It doesn’t matter if you were rideshare driving during the accident or not, it doesn’t matter if you were a driver, passenger or pedestrian involved in an accident…insurance companies could try to use this tactic to deny your claim. It is always a good idea to talk to a personal injury attorney after an accident whether you are a rideshare driver or not…but now rideshare drivers absolutely should talk to a lawyer.

Direct questions or follow-up to:

Kenneth “Tray” Gober
Personal Injury Attorney
Lee, Gober & Reyna
Austin, Texas
P: 512.800.8000
E: KGober@LGRLawFirm.Com
www.LGRLawFirm.com

Lee, Gober and Reyna – If you need a personal injury lawyer or help with an auto accident, motorcycle accident, wrongful death, or burn injury case, contact Lee, Gober and Reyna by visiting http://www.lgrlawfirm.com or calling 512.800.8000

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Drunk driver with history of offenses kills homecoming king

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:48:33 +0000

Occasionally a drunk driver involved in a fatal accident has enough sobriety to realize that they killed someone by driving while inebriated. Just such an event happened in Minnesota when a drunken pickup truck driver collided head-on into a vehicle being driven by a 17-year-old homecoming king. The victim was an athlete, well-liked, involved with the school band and had plans to go to college. Scenes like this one occur daily on Texas roadways.

The teenager was about a mile from his home at 8:25 p.m. when the fatal accident happened. His sister and a friend were in the car with him. He died at the scene of the crash. The other two passengers made it out alive and survived their injuries. Found crawling on the ground by the wreckage was the driver of the pickup truck that collided with the teenager’s vehicle. Charles Hendricks, the pickup truck’s driver, was crying that he had killed someone.

Police arrested Hendricks, charging him with criminal-vehicular homicide, violating restrictions on his driving license and drunken driving. The police files showed Hendricks had been heading north when his pickup truck crossed the centerline and hit the teenager’s vehicle head-on. Police officers subsequently found a virtually empty bottle of vodka in the pickup. His driving record indicated the man had also been convicted of driving while suspended, speeding (four times), careless driving, driving without insurance and license plates, disorderly conduct and misdemeanor assault.

Accidents just like this one happen in every state, despite extensive “Don’t Drink and Drive” campaigns. The carnage drunken drivers’ cause on U.S. highways is devastating. Lee, Gober & Reyna represent plaintiffs in cases involving drunken drivers. We are very experienced in seeking fair and just compensation for victims involved in deadly crashes. To find out what your legal rights are, contact an attorney.

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Drunk driving can land you in jail even if you have had no accidents

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:45:34 +0000

Houston habitual drunk drivers can end up in jail if they have an extensive record for driving while intoxicated (DWI). It happened recently in the case of Bobby Martin, a 64-year-old Montgomery County resident, who was handed 10 years behind bars for his 10th drunk driving conviction.

Texas jails are home to 32 other inmates doing time for having three or more DWI convictions. Martin’s record shows he has done prison time twice before for DWI convictions — one four-year sentence and one 15-year sentence.

Montgomery County has the dubious distinction of having the most DWI drivers behind bars (four) than compared to Harris County (one), whose population is larger. It actually has more DWI drivers behind bars than any other locale in Texas. While penalizing habitual DWI drivers might get them off the streets for the duration of their sentence, it appears the convictions alone do not stop them from drinking or re-offending once released.

Lee, Gober & Reyna represents victims of drunken drivers. We are plaintiff’s attorneys and have a great deal of experience dealing with cases involving DWI drivers. We know what is required to take a case to court and seek equitable and fair damages.

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Seibert Clarification from the U.S. Supreme Court Regarding Miranda Rights

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:42:58 +0000

Anyone who has seen a cop show knows about the now famous 1966 Miranda case where the US Supreme Court imposed procedures designed to protect people from being coerced into giving a confession to the police while the person is being interrogated in police custody. The police, not wanting to be hindered by the requirement to provide Miranda warnings developed a two-step “question-first warn later” technique wherein the police interrogate a suspect without providing Miranda warnings, get the suspect to fully confess, then give the suspect the Miranda warnings and get the suspect to re-confess.

The effect of this technique – identified by the US Supreme Court in the 2004 case of Missouri v. Seibert was to make the Miranda warnings ineffective because most suspects would not believe that they “have the right to remain silent” after they have already fully confessed. Kenneth “Tray” Gober an attorney at Lee, Gober & Reyna and co-counsel Dan Wood from Dallas have identified this two-step interrogation technique being used in a Texas case. The defendant in the Texas case, Rodney Hunt, was found to be “Borderline Intellectual Functioning” and was subjected to this technique, which his attorneys believe was used to coerce him into giving a false confession.

Mr. Gober and Mr. Wood have been fighting this case since 2008 in multiple levels of appeals and have now gone to the US Supreme Court to seek relief and to ask the US Supreme Court to clarify its ruling in the Seibert case so that police are not allowed to continue to use this type of two-step technique in the future. The Supreme Court only takes up about one-percent of these types of case, but Mr. Gober and Mr. Wood are hopeful that justice will be served. The full copy of the Petition for Writ of Certiorari laying out the argument and facts is available in PDF format.

Download the Petition for Writ of Certiorari (PDF 1.5mb)

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