A New York appellate court ruled that a change in partners for a partnership running a farm business did not void the workers’ compensation insurance policy that a carrier had issued to the business, nor the carrier’s acceptance of liability for the death of a teenage employee.
Case: Matter of Smith v. Park, No. 525437, 05/17/2018, published.
Facts: In July 2015, 14-year old Alex Smith was killed while operating a skid steer owned by the Park Family Farm. No one saw what happened, but two of Smith’s coworkers found his body crushed beneath a large bale of hay at the fr...
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