ANTELOPE VALLEY PRESS v. POIZNER

No. B198139.

75 Cal.Rptr.3d 887 (2008)

162 Cal.App.4th 839

ANTELOPE VALLEY PRESS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Steve POIZNER, as Insurance Commissioner, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents; State Compensation Insurance Fund, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Three.

April 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Patrick J. Sullivan and Patrick J. Sullivan; Zinser Law Firm, L. Michael Zinser and Glenn E. Plosa, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Felix Leatherwood and Philip C. Griffin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents.

Robert W. Daneri, Charles W. Savage, San Francisco, Betty R. Quarles, Monterey Park, and Isabel C. Lallana for Respondent and Real Party in Interest, State Compensation Insurance Fund.


CROSKEY, J.

This case poses the specific question whether, for purposes of worker's compensation insurance, persons who make deliveries of newspapers for the newspaper publisher Antelope Valley Press (AVP) are independent contractors or employees. The question arises not under a claim for worker's compensation benefits by one of the newspaper carriers (carriers), but rather with respect to the insurance premium that...

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