Legal Question in Employment Law in Florida

non payment /withholding commissions

I am an independant contractor (agent)selling telecom services. For 5 years, I have received monthly checks for my residuals and commissions from this company without fail. We had an arrangement whereby I never would need to sign a non disclosure or a limitation of liability,non compete or contract of any kind. I was contract shy as I was in a lawsuit from a previous employer who failed to meet his obligations to me. The current company could not wait for me to sell their product and agreed that if I was contract shy, it was fine with them as the revenues I brought them were astronomical. Now, after 5 years and a huge base of customers, they sent a letter insisting I sign a contract which I will not do under any circumstances. This contract request was precipitated by a very bad relationship that had developed between the owner and me while we were once good friends. I no longer bring in new business. By law, can they actually stop paying me my monthly commissions and still keep the revenue? It's the same constomers month after month and I am paid residuals on their billing. I have emails confiming his word of everything I always received. Now he's trying to renege. With documentaion galore, do I have grounds for a lawsuit? Thx.

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