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...
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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