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I like your thinkingIf you are no longer a driver, you can sue fedex. A judge recently ruled that McDonalds corporation was liable for a franchisee's employees. In essence, your contractor was the franchisee for fedex. I bet you could get an attorney to take this with no problem. Just research class action case by drivers against fedex. I suggest contacting the original lead attorney in the fedex- Shannon Liss Riordan. The spelling is probably wrong but close enough for google. Try this- [email protected] .You may even b able to get the Teamsters involved. This would be a great opportunity for them to settle whether fedex falls under the same McDonalds ruling. If in the meantime you suffer financially, you will have a lot of damages to sue for. You could help a lot of people by pursuing this a a class action.
There was just a discussion about this in a "hypothetical" situation that some contractors said wasn't realistic.
Sounds like maybe the contractor was no longer responsible for paying coverage, and all your bills from after that point weren't covered. At the very least, since your injury occurred while the contractor was still covered, the insurer would still be liable. But maybe since his account was cancelled, you got lost in the paperwok shuffle.
But I am not in it for some free ride.
However, I think I may have precedent