Who can be held liable?

[cuckootx]

To be honest, I'm still unclear as to who everyone is in this story, but in a nutshell:

If you an an employee of a company that utilizes the services of a supplier, and part of the contract between your employer and the supplier is the supplier will obtain and maintain X amount of insurance coverage (very common requirement), with very few and rare exceptions*, you as the employee have no legal right to "force" the supplier to actually get the required coverage. That claim belongs to your employer, who would bring a breach of contract suit for failing to procure requried insurance.

Of course, that doesn't preclude you from suing the supplier anyway - it's not your problem how they pay any potential judgments.


* It would take too long to get into the exceptions, but if you're interested, do a search for "third party beneficiary texas".

Thanks, Guilty. Where do you think would be a good place to search for that info. I have a lawyer on the case, but would like to do all that I can to help myself. We have already sued, but still no word from my attorney. I am considering making a change to a new atty. Maybe then I could get more answers. Thanks again to everyone who has posted.

 

[2901bruce]

What is the name of your state? Texas

I was injured at work by a third party and they only had $25,000 in liabilty ins. My company has "Terms and Conditions" for suppliers that requires a minimum of $500,000 in liability ins. The supplier that sent the third party agreed to the "T & C" and has more than $1,000,000 in liability ins. My attorney has filed suit, but is dragging his feet in answering my questions. Can the supplier be held liable? My atty. tried to get me to accept 1\3 of the $25,000 and sign papers releasing every one from liability, but I was paying attention. Can anyone shed light on this? It has been a year and a half and no progress is being made.

Dump this attorney and get a good P/I lawyer. You were badly injured! It sounds like your lawyer "cut a side-deal" with the responsible party - and only offered you 1/3 of the 25k. You should sue them and receive much, much, more than that! I wonder how much $$$$$ your greedy lawyer plans on pocketing? This sounds like a "Shady" deal.

 

[You Are Guilty]

The information must (should) be requested as part of the discovery phase of your lawsuit. What may be happening there is that your current lawyer, in an effort to not expend the time/energy/expense of fully litigating your claim, is merely settling for the minimum insurance coverage available, which means a faster paycheck then potentially going to trial with the supplier, and then possibly needing to collect on a judgment against them that's not covered by insurance.

It may be a good time to speak to another lawyer who's more of a "pitbull" to make sure your case is being handled more to your liking.