United States Fifth Circuit

The district court properly relied upon a Department of Transportation regulation (49 C.F.R. section 390.5), in determining that a truck driver was an "employee" for purposes of a commercial auto insurance policy's employee exclusions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/08/2002
• Published 10/08/2002

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before EMILIO M. GARZA, BENAVIDES and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• W. Terry Fitzgerald (argued), Fitzgerald Law Firm, The Woodlands, TX, Sheryl Anne Falk, Fitzgerald & Gartner, Houston, TX, for Consumers County Mut. Ins. Co.


• For Appellees:
  
• Louis Claiborne Dugas, Michael Jacobellis, Clay Dugas & Associates, Orange, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.