Little Donkey Enterprises, Inc. v. State Accident Insurance Fund

Petitioner, Little Donkey Enterprises, Inc., has filed a petition for review of our decision affirming an order of the Department of Insurance and Finance (DIF). We held that owner-operators with whom petitioner had contracted to haul loads for petitioner’s shipper customers were employees for purpose of workers’ compensation and that amounts paid to them are wages to be considered in the calculation of workers’ compensation premium assessments. Little Donkey Enterprises, Inc. v. SAIF, 118 Or App 54, 845 P2d 1298 (1993) (Little Donkey II). We also reconsidered our opinion in Little Donkey…