Wingfoot Enterprises v. Alvarado

in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice O’NEILL, Justice JEFFERSON, Justice SMITH and Justice WAINWRIGHT joined.

The issue in this case is whether an employee can have more than one employ*135er for purposes of the Workers’ Compensation Act and its exclusive remedy provision.1 We conclude that there can be more than one employer, and that the trial court correctly granted summary judgment in favor of Wingfoot Enterprises d/b/a Tandem Staffing (“Tandem”), a temporary staffing provider that employed Marleny Alvarado. Because the court of appeals concluded otherwise, we reverse the…