Wettermark Keith was founded in downtown Birmingham and has recovered compensation in more than 50,000 personal injury cases.
If you were hurt in an Uber, Lyft, or other rideshare crash anywhere in the Birmingham metro – from Vestavia Hills to Hoover, Homewood to Trussville – our attorneys are ready to hear your story. Call us today or complete the form to start your free case review.
Rideshare crashes in Birmingham don't unfold like ordinary wrecks – and the insurance fight starts within hours.
A tired Uber driver rear-ends your car on I-65 after a late Southside shift. A Lyft pulls out of a 20th Street hotel and t-bones a passenger-side door on a downtown run. A rideshare driver checks the app for the next ping on I-459 near the Galleria and drifts across a lane line. In every version, the first calls you get aren't from the rideshare company – they're from adjusters looking for recorded statements.
Why rideshare cases are different.
Uber and Lyft drivers are classified as independent contractors, and coverage depends on which "period" the app was in at the moment of the crash – app off, app on waiting for a ride, or en route with a passenger. Each period triggers a different policy, from the driver's personal auto insurance to the rideshare company's $1 million contingent liability coverage. App data, trip logs, and driver status at the moment of impact are central evidence – and they only exist as long as we preserve them.
Alabama law gives rideshare victims two hard deadlines.
The state follows a strict contributory negligence rule – meaning even 1% of fault assigned to you can bar recovery entirely. And the statute of limitations for most rideshare injury claims is two years from the date of the crash. Rideshare insurers know both rules, and they routinely call injured passengers within days of a wreck hoping for a recorded statement that shifts blame or minimizes injuries.
How our Birmingham attorneys build your rideshare case.
At Wettermark Keith, we take those calls so you don't have to. Our team will:
- Send preservation letters to Uber and Lyft to lock down app logs, trip data, and driver status before it's purged.
- Determine which rideshare "period" applied at the moment of the crash and identify every policy that should respond.
- Pull police reports from Jefferson County and the Alabama State Troopers.
- Work with accident reconstructionists and phone-records experts when fault or driver distraction is disputed.
- Identify every potentially liable party – rideshare driver, rideshare platform, any third-party motorist, and all available insurers.
- Build a case designed to survive Alabama's contributory negligence defense.
We handle claims for medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, and – in cases involving drunk, distracted, or reckless drivers – punitive damages.
