Gibson v. Tim's Crane & Rigging, Inc.

Ruffin, Chief Judge.

In Gibson v. Tim’s Crane & Rigging, Inc.,1 we held, inter alia, that issues of fact remained regarding whether a crane operator who *278worked for Tim’s Crane was a “borrowed servant” of the general contractor. Although the contract between Tim’s Crane and the general contractor designated the crane operator as a borrowed servant, we found from the evidence that the operator had special skills and exercised independent judgment, which created a question of fact regarding whether he could abdicate complete control to the general contractor.2 The Supreme Court granted certiorari…