California Court of Appeal

Order of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board that respondent, an unlicensed house painter visiting from Australia, was an employee of homeowners for purposes of awarding workers' compensation benefits is annulled because the respondent did not have the requisite earnings or hours to qualify as an employee.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/22/2006
• Published 03/22/2006

Judges

• SEPULVEDA, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Wiggins Richard & Romano LLP, Thomas A. Richard, San Francisco, Bradford A. Rosenblatt, for Petitioner., Alister McAlister, Wilton, for Association of California Insurance Companies as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Neil P. Sullivan, James C. Cuneo, Sacramento, William K. O'Brien, San Francisco, for Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.


• For Appellees:
  
• Howard Hibbard, Hayward, for Respondent Paul Hestehauge.