Meers v. Haughton Elevator

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a non-construction independent contractor is immune from common law suit when the work it performs on behalf of a contracting party is normally carried out in that business through the contractee’s own employees and not through independent contractors
• adopting the common-law control test to determine employment under Pennsylvania's workers' compensation act
• expressly noting that inquiry is different in non-construction situations
• expressly noting that inquiry is different in non-construction situations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).