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· 1/16/1991

Yellow Cab Cooperative, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Citations

  • 226 Cal. App. 3d 1288
  • 277 Cal. Rptr. 434
  • 91 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 560
  • 91 Daily Journal DAR 897
  • 56 Cal. Comp. Cases 34
  • 1991 Cal. App. LEXIS 72

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that under California law there is “a presumption that a service provider is presumed to be an employee unless the principal affirmatively proves otherwise”
  • noting that, contrary to Yellow Cab’s insistence that it merely served as a lessor of taxicabs, Yellow “cultivated the passenger market by soliciting riders, process[ed] requests for service through a dispatching system,” and instructed the drivers in “service” and “courtesy”

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Judges: Racanelli

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