Stoltze v. Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “The general rule is that an employer is not responsible for the negligence of his or her independent contractor.”
• even if the employee is not qualified, it’s the responsibility of the employee’s employer to inform the employee of the dangers
• “[A]n employer may be held liable for the conduct of a careless, reckless, or incompetent | ^independent contractor when the employer was negligent in hiring the contractor.”
• one exception to general rule that employer is not responsible for injuries sustained by independent contractor’s employees is when employer undertakes to perform certain duties and negligently fails to perform them or performs them negligently
• noting the general rule and three exceptions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).