Am I or my employer liable for damages?

Am I or my employer liable for damages?

I drive a commercial vehicle bus. I pulled over to the far right lane of traffic with my hazard lights on to back up to park. I had put the vehicle in neutral and pulled the brake to look at my parking instructions and checked my mirrors and saw the closest vehicles behind me are about 2 blocks back and at a red light so now is my chance to back up to park the vehicle. What I couldn’t see is a car pulled up a foot off of the rear bumper of my bus and as I proceeded backwards impacting the front of their vehicle. Now this vehicle wasn’t in a parking spot nor was this vehicles intention of parking. She pulled up and just sat behind me. I’m not sure if it was out of sarcasm, ignorance or distraction. I am in FL where this happened but am a TN licensed driver in a TN registered vehicle. Being the car behind me was in my commercial blind spot which is if I’m not mistaken a law and trained not to be in when you get your license. Does that make the driver of the car liable for paying for repairs to their own vehicle? For a clearer understanding of the roadway I’m on. It was a city surface street 4 lanes wide and I needed to back into a location with a band up and moving around on my Entertainer coach meaning that I make no sudden or fast movements with the vehicle/bus as I can hurt my passengers severely. I know there was no way possible this driver could see my mirrors as I couldn’t even see the tail end of their car. I had mentioned to them to have us settle this without insurance but after doing my due diligence I’m partially realizing I might not be partially or completely at fault at all.

Asked on November 30, 2018 under Accident Law, Tennessee

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