Bernie Alvarez, a marine mechanic, worked for Pacific Crane Maintenance Company. Evergreen Container Terminal—operating a marine container terminal in the Port of Los Angeles—had contracted with ...

Horne v. Ahern Rentals, Inc., 50 Cal. App. 5 th 192 (2020) The surviving heirs of Ruben Dickerson sued Ahern Rentals, a company that leases forklifts and other heavy-duty construction vehicles to its ...

There is a strong presumption under California law that the hirer of an independent contractor delegates to the contractor the responsibility for providing the employees a safe workplace, the ...

The new IR35 rules are stirring things up and, amongst other things, are encouraging hirers to review how they engage their contractors and whether cost can be reduced. This is an opportunity that ...