Yoho v. Ringier of America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that owner that retained contractor to perform repair work on owner’s property was not statutory employer of contractor’s employee, injured in accident, such that employee’s sole remedy against owner would be recovery of workers’ compensation benefits
• printing plant owner was not solvent recovery system repairman’s statutory employer where owner did not owe to another any contractual obligation of performance with regard to repair of the system
• “[ojrdinarily, in common usage, a ‘contractor’ is one who undertakes to perform work for another”
• “[ojnly an entity who is secondarily liable for workers’ compensation benefits under OCGA § 34-9-8 (a) is consequently entitled to tort immunity under OCGA § 34-9-11”
• “Since the secondary liability for workers’ compensation imposed under this Code section is predicated upon the existence of the principal contractor- subcontractor relationship, [OCGA § 34-9-8 (a
• Under “Manning, only a ‘contractor’ can be a statutory employer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).