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Privette Doctrine Back to Court

A company on the wrong end of a $100 million jury award for negligence in a worker’s death will get a new trial.  The Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled that the jury should have considered whether the Privette Doctrine applied to the case. The court of appeal rejected the lower court’s assertion that Privette … Read More »

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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 … Read More »

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