Privette Doctrine – A Primer
California’s Supreme Court established the Privette Doctrine in the early 1990s to protect third parties—homeowners, businesses, and other hirers of independent contractors or businesses—from liability for injuries that employees of these contracted entities sustain. Privette holds that the workers’ compensation exclusivity protections extend to the hiring entity in part because their payments under the contract …
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