When a FedEx vehicle hurts you or someone you love, the wreck is not the hard part to understand. The hard part is who pays for it. The driver of that FedEx-branded van very likely does not work for FedEx, and the companies involved lean on that the moment a claim comes in. As your FedEx accident lawyer, our job is to look past the logo and find every business, and every insurance policy, that should be on the table for your family.
Collins Law Group represents people across Illinois seriously injured in crashes involving FedEx vehicles, from neighborhood delivery vans to tractor-trailers on the interstate. These cases follow the rules that govern every Illinois truck and commercial vehicle crash, but the corporate structure behind the vehicle makes them different from an ordinary car accident from day one.
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FedEx delivery routes are operated by independent businesses that FedEx calls Independent Service Providers. Those contractor companies hire the drivers, own or lease the vans, and carry their own insurance. And since FedEx consolidated its separate Ground and Express networks in 2024, more of its delivery operation, not less, runs through this contractor model. On the highway side, FedEx also uses contracted linehaul businesses whose tractor-trailers move its freight between hubs, operating under federal motor carrier safety regulations.
Why does that matter to an injured person? Because when the claim comes in, the argument is already built: FedEx says the driver worked for the contractor, and the contractor may be a small business with limited coverage. If you accept the labels at face value, you may never see the full picture of responsibility or insurance.
We identify every entity in the chain: the driver, the service provider business that employed them, the owner of the vehicle, and FedEx itself where the facts support it. We preserve the evidence commercial carriers keep, including driver records, telematics, and delivery data, before it disappears. We look at every applicable policy, from the contractor’s coverage to any umbrella or excess layers. And we prepare the case to be tried, because that is what makes these defendants pay full value. Our firm’s results include a 2024 Top 50 Verdict in Illinois: a DuPage County rear-end crash requiring four spine surgeries, where we also sued the insurer for bad faith and the total recovery exceeded $1.6 million. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee future outcomes.
A FedEx delivery van crash in a neighborhood and a FedEx semi-truck crash on the interstate raise different questions, different regulations, and different insurance. We built a page for each so you can see how your case actually works.
Most Illinois injury suits must be filed within two years under 735 ILCS 5/13-202, and the practical deadline is far earlier, because vehicle data and driver records do not wait. If the injuries are severe, our catastrophic injury team should be involved from the start.
Yes. That company is almost certainly the FedEx service provider that operates the route. It is a defendant, and its insurance matters, but it is often not the only responsible party. Do not settle with the first insurer that calls.
It depends on the facts, including how much control the company actually exercised over the work. That is a legal fight we know how to have, and it starts with getting the contracts and operational records in discovery.
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John D. Risvold is an equity partner at Collins Law Group, P.C. in Naperville, Illinois. He represents individuals and families in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases, focusing on commercial trucking crashes, rideshare and autonomous vehicle litigation, medical malpractice and birth injury, and product defect claims. He has tried cases to verdict in Illinois courts, recovered more than $50 million for clients over thirteen years of practice, and has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation and Illinois Super Lawyers.
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