Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. v. Washington Hospital Center Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that nurse paid by staffing agency and assigned to work at hospital was employee of hospital under insurance policy covering hospital “employees”
• concluding that \employee\ was unambiguous term encompassing the right-to-control test and then considering contractual level of control to determine whether nurse qualified as an employee under the right-to-control test
• applying common-law “right-to-control” test to define “employee” for purposes of insurance policy issued to hospital utilizing nurses, provided by staffing agency
• “Since GFIL failed to raise this argument . . . during summary judgment briefing, the Court may treat the argument as waived.”
• “Because an insurance policy is a contract, we construe it according to contract law principles.”
• policy providing coverage to all “employees” of hospital was unambiguous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).