Suing an employee/driver for negligence? Need help

Not true.

If you manage the company, you are liable for the workers of that company if there is negligence involved.

ceos/managers/owners have been personally sued and lost many times.

 

Is that what OP was asking even possible?
I've never heard of an employer suing his employee over something they'd done at work. You hire someone then that person is YOUR liability for anything he does pertaining to the job. It is like sueing your dog for biting a neighbor's butt. Better thank Heavens for not being sued over for what your driver did.

 

Big Bucks

 

Sorry for my poor explanation. I do agree with you. But they normally will have to present a civil suit to come at you personally.

 

Did OP ever say if he was leased onto a carrier? If so, couldn't that carrier just as easily sue OP as the employer of the driver?

 

I could see if it was drugs or something, but how do you prove he intentionally set out to harm your business? That’s the issue. It’s called an accident for a reason. If he was mad at you and released the brakes letting it roll into a lake ok, but this was an accident.

my advice to him would be #### and stop talking to you or anyone else. Sure it sucks but suing him??? Pretty crap employer if you ask me. He says the wrong thing on the phone you’ll bring it into court.

Just guessing and I haven’t read the thread because I don’t care… that you are in hot water. Either you have to pay a lot out of pocket for this, don’t have enough insurance, etc and are looking to place blame and recover some money. Putting this guy into financial ruin won’t solve anything except peg your karma meter. This

This is why you shouldn’t play big corporation trucker. Have one truck and run it yourself. Don’t trust others to be as careful as you would. It will never happen. Big companies can afford to play this game. A guy with two trucks can’t. When it’s all going great it’s fine, but see how easily it can go south? Lesson for anyone thinking I’ll get multiple trucks and make that big money. Two trucks just brings twice as many problems. Three trucks. Three times the problems. See where this is going?

 

Unless he has insurance, or is sitting on alot of money, it blood from a stone.

 

All I know is everybody is suing everybody and getting paid...so I'm just going around looking for that one McD's that don't have a seatbelt installed on their toilet....so I can fall off and get paid, hey! Why did I fall off? Oh the burger I was eating while pooping had an over heated pickle in it, hey! (Don't steal my idea now or I'll have to hunt you down and sign up your home address for relentless junk mail that will be such a volume that you'll be forced to buy a mailbox 3X bigger than your current one! I have the technology, I have the knowledge,you just can't beat good old american junk mail and non wanted sales calls! ) Flip this message over for some exciting news about selling your home as-is to me and becoming homeless! It's an opportunity you can't pass up!

 

If you do I hope he counter sues the hell out of you. Maybe the hammer (lol) can dig through all the logs and messages and find some reason you should have to pay up. Doesn't take much to "prove" you were negligent and running an unsafe company that led to the driver being tired. All it takes is a judge who let's the case go forward and a sympathetic/idiotic jury to ruin you.

You have proper insurance, correct? That's your remedy.