Holton v. Georgia Power Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Georgia Power, as majority owner of power plant and as principal contractor contractually obligated to other co-owners for plant’s maintenance, was plaintiff’s statutory employer and was entitled to workers’ compensation immunity from his tort claims
• where majority owner of power plant was also obligated by agreement to other owners for plant’s maintenance, it became injured worker’s statutory employer, immune from tort liability
• “The secondary liability and corresponding immunity [for statutory employers] apply to those who contract to perform certain work then sublet that work in whole or in part.”
• Under OCGA § 34-9-8 (a), “secondary liability and corresponding immunity appl[ies] to those who contract to perform certain work then sublet[s] that work in whole or in part.”
• power plant majority owner was repairman’s statutory employer where majority owner owed minority owners a contractual duty to operate and maintain the plant and majority owner hired repairman’s direct employer to perform that work

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).