Thompson v. Travelers Indemnity Co. of Rhode Island

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that evidence did not conclusively establish that jockey was employee of racetrack as distinct from an independent contractor for purposes of Workers’ Compensation Act
• reasoning that the type of control normally exercised by an employer includes determining when and where to begin and stop work, the regularity of hours, the tools and appliances used to perform the work, and the physical method or manner of accomplishing the end result
• discussing the “test to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor”
• noting in workers’ compensation case that an “[e]xample[] of the type of control normally exercised by an employer include[s] . . . the physical method or manner of accomplishing the end result”
• setting forth examples of the types of control normally exercised by employer
• “[e]xamples of the type of control normally exercised by an employer include” several factors later set out in Limestone (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).