Ravare v. McCormick & Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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1. “"`What is an independent contractor? It is defined as "one who is rendering services, an independent employment or occupation, and represents the employer only as to the results of his work, and not as to the means whereby it is to be done." 39 C.J. § 1517, p. 1315. The most generally applied test of the relationship is the "right of control as to the mode of doing the work contracted for." Ibid. § 1316; Faren v. Sellers, 39 La.Ann. 1011 , 3 So. 363 , 4 Am.St.Rep. 256 ; Gallagher v. Southwestern Exposition Ass'n, 28 La.Ann. 943 . "`The circumstances which go to show one to be an independent contractor are the "independent nature of his business, the existence of a contract for the performance of a specified piece of work, the agreement to pay a fixed price for the work, the employment of assistants by the employee who are under his control, the furnishing by him of the necessary materials and his right to control the work while it is in progress." 39 C.J. p. 1316, § 1517. * * *"”

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