Unless you rent the equipment to the guy. If someone screws up house with a rented bobcat, they don't go after Four Star.
Josh Luthman 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:07 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Im suspecting that if Im operating 1099 on a piece of company As equipment > on a company A project, Company A could put the liability on me if I hit a > utility. Whereas if I were an employee of company A, the company itself > would hold the liability. Liability I refer to as the stuck utilities > compensation for loss and damage. > > Im trying to tell my buddy that if I or anybody is operating his equipment > 1099 we are risking liability. Everybody is friends until someone wants > paid for their fiber getting respooled on a boring rod or a sewage filled > sinkhole shows up with a duct right through the middle of it. . > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 2:24 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The one who did the work is the one responsible. Doesn't matter if >> they're putting it in for the city, AT&T, or Steve's ISP. >> >> Think about how VZW/Tmobile/AT&T all use contractors for tower climbing. >> >> Josh Luthman >> 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:05 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Sounds right. >>> >>> I think you might be able to name a 1099 employee as an additional >>> insured on your liability policy. Might be better than putting it on him >>> to get his own $5mil liability policy. >>> >>> >>> On 3/10/2021 2:58 PM, Steve Jones wrote: >>> >>> So, if you contract an operator to run your horizontal drill, who is >>> liable for striking a utility. I assume a contractor with his own drill is >>> liable, a contracted laborer im guessing would be decided by state lars on >>> whos an employee and whos a contractor regardless of 1099, and as >>> employee would put the liability on the company who the dig is for. >>> >>> does that sound right? >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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