Santorii v. MartinezRusso, LLC

OPINION

CATTANI, Judge:

¶ 1 This is a wrongful death case in which we address whether Arizona’s real estate statutes and regulations establish—as a matter of law—that the relationship between real estate brokers and their salespersons is one of employer and employee. We conclude that although the statutes and regulations impose on a broker the responsibility to closely supervise a real estate transaction and the documentation of that transaction, they do not establish the requisite control over other aspects of a salesperson’s activities (such as driving to and from sales appointments), and…