IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION THREE LANCE PARIS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. USI OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSURANCE SERVICES, INC. , Defendant and Respondent. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff and appellant Lance Paris (Paris) sued his ex-employer, defendant and respondent USI of Southern California Insurance Services, Inc. , a California corporation (USI). Prior to April 1, 2003, USI provided loss control services to its clients by hiring Paris as an independent contractor. The billing procedures Neither Rastigue nor any other USI employee asked Paris to provide USI with invoices for loss control services, nor did any USI employee tell Paris that he must "bill, invoice, and collect for loss control services" in order to earn a commission. [P]roducers at USI began to give free loss control services to their clients, i. e. , [Paris] would provide the same services to the clients, but the producers refused to charge the clients, thus .

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