Handling PI Cases Involving Amazon DSPs and How to Hold Amazon Accountable
Brian is a Partner and National Trucking Trial Attorney at Fried Goldberg LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Brian’s practice is focused on catastrophic commercial motor vehicles collisions across the country, and he has become a subject matter expert on handling cases against Amazon. Brian is licensed in Georgia and South Carolina and has successfully litigated cases in 15 different states
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Program Summary
Amazon’s Delivery Service Partner program is engineered to put a layer of “independent contractors” between the company and every collision its drivers cause. The same contracts, apps, and operations manual that run the network also document the control that defeats that defense.
Sue the DSP as a true independent contractor → you collect from an undercapitalized shell and Amazon walks. Depose only the corporate designee → you get scripted contract language, not daily control. Skip the 293-page Operations Manual and the driver-tracking apps → you lose what put 85% of the fault on Amazon in Bradfield v. Amazon Logistics.
You leave with the discovery requests, deposition outlines, and protective-order positions that surface Amazon’s control, the liability theories — dual employer, negligent training and supervision, joint venture — that reach the parent, and the demonstratives and closing themes that carried a 2024 Gwinnett County trial to a $16.2 million verdict, including exclusive video from the case.
What Will You Learn
Attorneys will learn how Amazon’s DSP contract terms and program policies operate, how to depose DSPs and drivers, and the theories governing Amazon’s vicarious and direct liability.
What Will You Gain
Attorneys will gain practical strategies for holding Amazon accountable in DSP collision cases, supported by exclusive footage from the firm’s 2024 Gwinnett County trial against Amazon.
Key topics to be discussed:
- Contract Analysis
Three Amazon-drafted documents govern DSP relationships with no negotiation allowed - Deposition Strategy
DSP and driver depositions establish Amazon’s daily control better than corporate designees. - App Control
Amazon’s Flex and Mentor apps control and monitor every aspect of driver activity. - Liability Theories
Recovery theories include dual employer, negligent training, supervision, and joint venture claims. - Trial Techniques
Effective demonstratives and closing arguments connect Amazon’s flawed system to accidents.
This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.
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Brian Mohs | Fried Goldberg LLC
Brian is a Partner and National Trucking Trial Attorney at Fried Goldberg LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Brian’s practice is focused on catastrophic commercial motor vehicles collisions across the country, and he has become a subject matter expert on handling cases against Amazon. Brian is licensed in Georgia and South Carolina and has successfully litigated cases in 15 different states. Brian became Board Certified in Truck Accident Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in 2020 following a rigorous vetting process and a six-hour examination. Brian is a Ramblin Wreck from Georgia Tech (graduated in 2002) and a Georgia State University Panther (J.D. in 2008). Brian and his wife, Katie, live in Johns Creek, Georgia with their two children, Oliver (7) and Adeline (6), and their 2 dogs. They have their hands full.
Agenda
SESSION 1 – Analysis of Amazon DSP program including contract terms and policies | 2:00pm – 2:30pm
Amazon relaunched its Delivery Service Partner program in 2018 to run last-mile delivery in-house. This session works through the contract terms and policies governing DSP partners and tests the independent-contractor framing against how Amazon actually operates the program.
SESSION 2 – Strategies for deposing Amazon DSPs, delivery drivers, and Amazon | 2:30pm – 3:00pm
This session builds a deposition strategy across the three layers of a DSP case: the DSP entity, the driver, and Amazon. It shows how to use program documents to establish the control Amazon exercises over partners it calls independent.
Break | 3:00pm – 3:10pm
SESSION 3 – Theories of recovery and legal authority governing Amazon’s vicarious and direct liability in DSP cases | 3:10pm – 3:40pm
The closing session maps the theories of vicarious and direct liability against Amazon in DSP collision cases and includes exclusive footage from the firm’s 2024 Gwinnett County trial, showing how those theories were presented to a jury.
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