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Where a worker was employed by a subcontractor who supplied staff to an employer that set the worker’s schedule, assignments, and training, the employer was the worker’s statutory employer and, since it was a workers’ compensation subscriber, the employer was immune from suit following the worker’s injury. The court noted that the worker performed his work on the employer’s premises and alongside the employer’s other employees and had received workers’ compensation benefits from the subcontractor’s insurance carrier.
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See Texas Instruments, Inc. v. Udell, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 9456 (Aug. 25, 2016)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 100.01.
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law