UPS is one of the largest trucking operations in the world, and its brown package cars and feeder semis are on every kind of Illinois road, every day. When one of them causes a crash, the case has a feature that sets it apart from crashes involving Amazon or FedEx vehicles, and it is the first thing your UPS accident lawyer puts to work: the driver almost certainly works for UPS itself.
Collins Law Group represents people across Illinois who were seriously injured in UPS vehicle crashes. These cases follow Illinois truck and commercial vehicle law, and the company on the other side has the resources and the lawyers to match its size. What it does not get to do is walk away from responsibility for its own drivers.
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Unlike the contractor networks behind Amazon and FedEx deliveries, UPS package car drivers and feeder drivers are generally direct UPS employees, working under a national union contract. In legal terms, that means the company is responsible when its driver negligently hurts someone on the job. There is usually no maze of shell contractors to untangle, and no argument that the person in the brown uniform was somebody else’s problem.
That does not make these cases easy. It changes where the fight happens. With responsibility for the driver clear, UPS and its insurers contest everything else: what happened in the crash, whose fault it was, and above all how badly you were really hurt. The battle is liability and damages, fought against a defendant with effectively unlimited resources.
UPS operates two very different vehicle fleets. The familiar brown package cars work neighborhoods and city streets, with constant stops, backing, and pedestrian exposure. Its feeder tractors pull trailers, often doubles, between hubs on the interstate, where crashes are governed by federal motor carrier regulations and the injuries are usually catastrophic. Each has its own page because each is its own kind of case.
We move immediately to preserve what UPS knows about the crash: the driver’s records, the vehicle’s telematics and camera data, and the delivery and dispatch records for that route. We investigate the crash independently rather than accepting the company’s version. We document the injuries with treating physicians and, where the case warrants it, life-care planning. And we prepare for trial from the first day, because a defendant this size settles fairly only when it believes you will try the case. Our firm’s results include a Top 30 Settlement in Illinois for 2020: a rear-end crash caused by a drunk driver, resolved with punitive damages and a bad-faith finding at three times the policy limits. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee future outcomes.
Most Illinois injury suits must be filed within two years under 735 ILCS 5/13-202. The evidence deadline is much shorter. If the injuries are severe, involve our catastrophic injury team early.
Take their name and number, and do not give a recorded statement or sign anything. A same-week call from the insurer means the company is already building its file. You should have someone building yours.
Most do, eventually. But the settlements worth taking come after the case has been built for trial, when the company has seen the evidence and knows the alternative.
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John D. Risvold is an equity partner at Collins Law Group, P.C. in Naperville, Illinois. He represents individuals and families in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases, focusing on commercial trucking crashes, rideshare and autonomous vehicle litigation, medical malpractice and birth injury, and product defect claims. He has tried cases to verdict in Illinois courts, recovered more than $50 million for clients over thirteen years of practice, and has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation and Illinois Super Lawyers.
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