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California Court of Appeal provides roadmap on the proper classification of independent contractors

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 5 2012

Insurance agents and other types of salespeople with the discretion to determine when, how, and whether to sell a company’s products may properly be classified as independent contractors, according to the California Court of Appeal’s recent holding in Arnold v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company the first California decision to detail the circumstances under which insurance agents, and potentially other types of salespeople, may be classified as independent contractors