The Carolina Casualty Insurance Company v. The Insurance Company Of North America

How courts have described this case

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• stating that preemptive effect ICC. regulations may have upon state regulation of motor carriers does not extend to displace state-law doctrines regarding, inter alia, respondeat superior and contribution among tortfeasors
• “Federal law in effect creates an irrebuttable presumption of an employment relationship between the driver and the lessee whose placards identify the vehicle.”
• “where the case is ‘concerned with responsibility as between insurance carriers,’ and not with the federal policy of protecting the public, T.C.C. considerations are not determinative’ and a court should consider the express terms of the parties’ contracts”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).