Woodruff Construction Co. v. Barrick Roofers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing an indemnity action from an action for damages to which an employer is immune under the exclusive remedy provision of the IWCA
• “[Wjhere the proposed indemnitee aided in the creation of the hazard, the law should not imply a right to indemnity from the employer.”
• also noting that the “independent duty” must be “owed by the employer to the third party”
• an implied agreement to indemnify would not be read into all service contracts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).