Your grade school law understanding is tripping over your desired outcome.This is a prime example about the lack of due process. If the police report absolved the contractor employed driver of fault and or liability and the other driver was at fault for running into the back of the contractor's van it should be a closed matter. Then again because the contractor has no access to due process X is now free to withhold settlement dollars that it would not otherwise be legally entitled to do. And as contractors have over time put more and more dollars at risk their contractual barrier to due process becomes an even larger source of contractor grievance.
Once again....nothing's binding!. That should have been the foremost guidepost contractors used to decide their course of action.
Therefore, allow my seventh grade law understanding to school you…again.
It’s simply another indication that the contract is unconscionable and my guess is that will become more and more clear as Patton’s case works it’s way through the court.