By Kent Holland A subcontractor’s employee suffered a horrible injury when removing an abandoned railroad bridge. After recovering almost $1.5 million in workers compensation, he sued the railroad company that had hired the prime contractor that hired the...
By Kent Holland An employee of an independent contractor cannot generally recover damages from the one who hired the contractor for work-related injuries. One exception to this rule is where the hirer actually retained control of the work or otherwise caused or...
Gail S. Kelley, P.E., J.D. ConstructionRisk, LLC Where the employee of a roofing subcontractor died after falling from the roof of a Walmart being constructed in Nebraska, Walmart was not liable for the worker’s death under any of the exceptions to the...
The engineering firm, Arcadis U.S., and several of its employees, asked the court to dismiss a contractor lawsuit against them on the basis that they were immune from suit because they were acting as agents or employees of the City government when making decisions...
Where a masonry subcontractor employee was injured by slipping on a plastering subcontractor’s wet scaffolding, the laborer sued the project general contractor (GC) alleging his injuries were caused by the GC’s negligence in sequencing and coordinating construction...
The general rule that that employees of an independent contractor that are injured in the workplace cannot sue the party that hired the contractor to do the work applies even when the party that hired the contractor failed to comply with workplace safety requirements...
A project owner, Lafayette College, entered into a construction management agreement with a general contractor to renovate a building, and that firm in turn subcontracted the renovation work to other contractors, one of whom performed the roofing work. An employee...
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