Court Confirms: Staffing Agency’s Workers’ Comp Policy Shields Customer from Common Law Negligence Claims, Too

From OMA Connections Partner, Frantz Ward, this summary of a recent decision from Ohio’s Eighth District Court of Appeals: “An Ohio court of appeals last week confirmed that a primary benefit of using staffing companies – the staffing company’s payment of workers’ compensation premiums covering the loaned employees – shields both the staffing company and its customer from workplace negligence claims.”