by Staff of the Firm | May 5, 2016 | Business Management, California Law Update, Uncategorized
This is the second in a two-part blog on Cotter v. Lyft, a California case involving misclassification of drivers. Read about the “whys” of the case in our first post, Employee or Independent Contractor? That Is the Question. In the settlement agreement, Lyft agreed...
by Staff of the Firm | Apr 28, 2016 | Business Management, California Law Update, Uncategorized
As part of our previous blog series titled Uber and Lyft Drivers Might Be Employees, Not Independent Contractors, Under California Law, we wrote about Cotter v. Lyft, a California case involving claims of misclassified drivers.[1] At the heart of this case was the...
by Staff of the Firm | Jan 12, 2016 | Business Management, LLC, Personal Liability, Uncategorized
As many of you know, one of the greatest advantages of forming an LLC is that it offers protection from personal liability for business debts and liabilities. As we explained in our previous blog series “Personal Liability of Business Owners,” however, the liability...
by Staff of the Firm | Sep 10, 2015 | Business Management, California Law Update, Uncategorized
Cotter v. Lyft. In Cotter v. Lyft, a district court case involving similar facts as in Berwick v. Uber, the court acknowledged at the outset that Lyft drivers didn’t seem much like employees or independent contractors.[1] On one hand, the court noted, Lyft drivers,...
by Staff of the Firm | Sep 3, 2015 | Business Management, California Law Update, Uncategorized
Berwick v. Uber. In 2014, Uber and a middleman Rasier-CA LLC (collectively referred to as “Uber”) employed Berwick as a driver in San Francisco, California, under the terms of a written agreement.[1] The agreement provided, in relevant part, that Berwick was entitled...
