Construction,
Civil Litigation,
California Supreme Court
Sep. 7, 2021
No new exception to the Privette doctrine
Last month the California Supreme Court ruled on who should bear the risk of the injury — the owner of the property, or the independent contractor on whom the owner relied to perform the work in a safe manner.
While singer Johnny Mathis was in the hospital, a professional window washer was at his house to clean a skylight over an indoor pool of Mathis's home. The window washer, a specialist in hard-to-reach windows and skylights, had cleaned the skylight many times over the years, but slipped and fell from the roof due to known hazards on the roof (slippery conditions that he had previously disclosed to the housekeeper), and sued Mathis for his injuries.
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