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If you hire a contractor to perform work on your house, and during their contract they happen to burn down one neighbor's house and destroy the wall of a separa
by IncRnd 5y ago
If you hire a contractor to perform work on your house, and during their contract they happen to burn down one neighbor's house and destroy the wall of a separate neighbor's house - you will not be liable for their actions.
If you think that Amazon should be liable for the actions of their contracted drivers, you would likewise be liable for burning down and destroying your neighbor's houses.
- leothecool 5y agoNot really, because I also think Amazon is illegally classifying these employees as contractors. I don't tell the contractor working on my house what tools to use, and the contractor working on my house has other customers besides me.
- crmd 5y agoThe “homeowner” here is analogous to an outside investor in Amazon (like me) who has no operational role in the company. The entity who directs the the manner in which subcontractors work, like Amazon does with its delivery companies, is acting as the general contractor and will most surely be named in a lawsuit if anything they did or did not do plausibly contributed to the fire.
- CydeWeys 5y agoIt's a bad analogy though because that contractor does not exclusively work for you using trucks and clothing branded with your name. The Amazon delivery "contractors", though, do do all of the above.
- IncRnd 5y agoThat's a good point. Thank you.