Defendant’s business arranges for transportation of cargo from the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports to warehouses, and plaintiffs are truck drivers. Prior to implementation of a clean air program at the ports in 2008, truck drivers generally owned their own trucks and worked as independent contractors. After the clean air program was implemented, older […]
No Respondeat Superior For Acts Of Independent Contractor.
A production company hired a medical doctor as its performer’s personal physician for a concert tour. The performer died of acute intoxication by drug while under the doctor’s care. The performer’s family sued the production company for negligent hiring, retention and supervision of the doctor. The trial court granted summary adjudication for negligence and respondeat […]
No Unemployment Payments When Wages Earned As Independent Contractor.
Plaintiff is an attorney who left private practice in 2007 to work as a law clerk at the superior court. He lost his job at the superior court due to the economic recession and was unable to find employment either in the public or private sector. He filed a claim for unemployment benefits. His benefits commenced […]
Summary Judgment Reversed On Issue Of Agency Between Auto Club And Tow Truck Company.
Plaintiff was an Auto Club member who requested roadside assistance for a flat tire, and the Auto Club dispatched a flat bed car carrier to a “very dangerous, narrow, dark” section of the Long Beach freeway. The tow truck driver, a technician certified by Auto Club in 1998, decided to transport the disabled car to […]