“Split 6th Circuit Panel Says American Family Insurance Agents Aren’t Employees”
ATLANTA (February 5, 2019) --- In an article published on February 5, 2019 in the Daily Report, Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial partner Stephen Mooney, who practices out of the firm’s Atlanta office, provides insight into the lawsuit filed in an Ohio federal court against American Family Insurance by agents seeking to be classified as employees in order to be eligible for benefits under ERISA. Mooney, who was among the trial team that argued the advisory trial on behalf of the insurer, explains how this case could “dramatically change the employee versus independent contractor landscape.”
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