Warner v. Continuum Health Care Partners, Inc.

Plaintiff testified that she was employed as a contract travel nurse at defendant St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center (collectively with defendant Continuum Health Care Partners, St. Luke’s). On October 16, 2009, she went to the cafeteria at her assigned lunch time, where she slipped and fell while waiting in line to pay one of the cashiers.

A special employee is one who is transferred, for a limited time of whatever duration, to the service of another. When an employee is eligible to receive Workers’ Compensation benefits from his general employer, a special employer is shielded from any…