Posts tagged ‘Hooker’

Summary Judgment in Favor of General Contractor Under Privette Doctrine Overturned: Lessons Learned

It seems like we’ve been seeing a lot of Privette doctrine cases recently. Here’s another, Brown v. Beach House Design & Development, 85 Cal.App.5th 516 (2002),…

Court of Appeal: Privette Doctrine Does Not Apply to Landlord-Tenant Relationships

We’ve talked a fair bit about the Privette doctrine which provides for a rebuttable presumption that a hirer is not liable for workplace injuries sustained by…

Just Because You Caused it, Doesn’t Mean You Own It: The Hooker Exception to the Privette Doctrine

We’ve written before about the Privette doctrine, which establishes a presumption that a hirer of an independent contractor delegates to the contractor all responsibility for workplace…

A Riveting (or at Least Insightful) Explanation of the Privette Doctrine

“The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine” – Plutarch And grind they do . . . slowly. For long time readers of the…

Construction Injuries Under the Privette Doctrine. An Electrifying, but Perhaps Not Particularly Shocking, Story . . .

We’ve talked about the Privette doctrine before (see here, here, and here). The Privette doctrine, named after the court case Privette v. Superior Court (1993) 5 Cal.4th 689, provides in…