Paying for No Fault Accident?

I can see being put in the position of signing equals job or no job. At least they went about it the legal way and had you sign a pre-employment agreement. Too many small outfits wait until after the fact which is illegal to coerce or threaten an employee to sign something after the fact.

You on the other hand agreed to the terms of employment. All you can do is man up and fulfill the agreement. It sucks but a signed piece of paper is a legal and binding agreement. The only way out of it is a bankruptcy.

Do your best and pay it off as quickly as possible. Once behind you then you can forget about it but the live and learn part. Once you get experience in ask these type questions when shopping for a job. After a year you will be in a position where you can pick-n-choose and reject such crazy requirements. That's why they have insurance and it's the cost of doing business. That's why they get the big bucks and you the little bucks.

You can investigate that road and if it's not a forbidden truck route then you can sue the city, county or state (who's road or tree is it?) for not keeping the roads up. All obstacles have to be a minimum of 14' above the road surface. Then you could recoup your losses. You really need to talk to an attorney about that. Most have a free initial consultation.

 

Worth a try to find out if the city is responsible for the tree or private residence or business. See if they'd be willing to pay the damage. If not take them to judge Judy!

 

well first thing is this - the title of the thread doesn't reflect your problem, this is an preventable accident.

That said, when did you sign the paper?

Before or after the accident?

 

Ah, how about don’t drive into a tree branch.

It didn't jump out in front of you did it?

 

Completely spot on!

 

Seems to me,if it happened the way you described, you would fight this rather than having a "whatever" attitude.Just saying.