When the Cows Don't Want to Come Home

The Supreme Court of Idaho affirmed a decision of the Idaho Workers Compensation Commission that found a "livestock transportation broker" was the statutory employer of a man injured by a charging bovine.

Kelly Helton, JD | September 29, 2022

A "livestock load brokerage service" has been declared the "category one statutory employer" of a truck driver who was headbutted and trampled by a cow while loading the animal into a truck. The case is Eldridge v. Agar Livestock, 2022 Ida. LEXIS 115 (Idaho 2022).

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