State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “truck driving — while perhaps not a skilled craft — requires abilities beyond those possessed by a general laborer”
• determining that owner-operators like Green were “independent contractors” under California’s workers’ compensation system, and therefore were not employees under that state’s statutory system
• stating that \truck driving-while perhaps not a skilled craft-requires abilities beyond those possessed by a general laborer\
• finding owner-operator truckers “are engaged in a distinct occupation, one with its own trade association”
• termination provision with fourteen-day notice requirement was “consistent either with an employment-at-will relationship or parties in a continuing contractual relationship”
• termination provision with fourteen-day notice requirement was \consistent either with an employment-at-will relationship or parties in a continuing contractual relationship\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).