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Injuries From Amazon Delivery Service Partners: Developing the Record to Hold Amazon Liable for DSP Negligence

A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Thursday, April 17, 2025

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

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This CLE webinar, led by preeminent leaders in this field, will discuss how to develop the record to hold Amazon responsible for the negligence of Amazon Delivery Service Partner (DSP) drivers and companies.

Description

Most vehicles associated with Amazon are driven not by direct employees of Amazon but by Amazon's DSPs: companies that are not owned by Amazon, but that exclusively handle Amazon deliveries. When accidents occur, Amazon disclaims vicarious responsibility or direct negligence.

These cases turn on Amazon's relationship with the DSP and liability issues of who ultimately is responsible for an injury. The central issue is Amazon's control over DSPs and their drivers. Developing the extensive record to establish that DSPs are not in fact independent companies and have anything but a typical business partnership with Amazon takes thorough planning, tenacity, and precise execution.

Listen as the panel of experienced attorneys who have obtained groundbreaking verdicts against Amazon and DSPs offers strategies and best practices on how to obtain the evidence to hold Amazon liable for the negligence of Amazon DSPs.

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Outline

  1. Unique aspects of Amazon's DSP program
  2. Theories of liability
  3. Critical facts and themes
  4. Discovery strategy
    1. Critical documents
    2. Critical depositions
  5. Insurance issues

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What are good analogies for the Amazon DSP system that juries can understand?
  • What types of openings and closings can emphasize that Amazon has sweeping control over its DSP's operations?
  • What questions can eliminate any legal presumption that the partner was an independent contractor?
  • What questions should plaintiffs anticipate defense counsel will ask in order to establish DSPs are independent?

Faculty

Benton, Bart
Bart Benton
Attorney
Benton & Benton Law

After years of working as a defense attorney for insurance companies and corporations, Mr. Benton gained invaluable...  |  Read More

Mohs, Brian
Brian T. Mohs
Partner
Fried Goldberg

Mr. Mohs represents individuals who have been injured in motor vehicle accidents involving trucks and motor...  |  Read More

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