by Kent Holland | Mar 30, 2017 | Newsletter Article
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 | Mar 30, 2017 | Newsletter Article
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...
by Kent Holland | Aug 18, 2015 | Newsletter Article
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...
by Kent Holland | Jun 7, 2013 | Newsletter Article
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...
by Kent Holland | Oct 31, 2012 | Newsletter Article
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...
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