A Louisiana appellate court last week revived a family's claim for benefits for a worker's fatal accident while working for his father's construction company.
The court said the trial judge had been "clearly wrong" in finding Filiberto Serna Jr. was his father's business partner, and that he was not an employee of Aries Building Services or Filser Construction.
It is settled law that for workers' compensation purposes, a partner can be construed as an employee of the partnership to which he belongs, the court said, although the evidence clearly established ...
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