Labor
law and equitable indemnity against the employer: state and federal lawmakers
enacted legislation barring recovery of implied or equitable indemnity against
employers for injuries to their employees.
(See Lab. Code, § 3864, added by Stats. 1959, ch. 955, § 1, p.
2986; Cooper Stevedoring Co. v. Kopke,
Inc. (1974) 417 U.S. 106, 113, fn. 6 [noting congressional intent to
overrule Ryan insofar as it “made an
employer circuitously liable for injuries to its employee, by allowing the
employee to maintain an action for unseaworthiness against the vessel and
allowing the vessel to maintain an action for indemnity against the
employer”].) (Cal. S. Ct., 19.03.09, Prince v. Pacific Gas).
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Prince v. Pacific Gas
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