Legal Question in Workers Comp in California

General Release Form

If my contractor hires day laborers

without my knowledge, can I use this

General Release as a legal document

for him to have them sign? Thanks!

GENERAL RELEASE

FOR GOOD CONSIDERATION, the

undersigned jointly and severally

hereby forever release, discharge,

acquit and forgive from any and all

claims, actions, suits, demands,

agreements, and each of them, if

more than one, liabilities, judgments,

and proceedings both at law and in

equity arising from the beginning of

time to the date of these presents

and as more particularly related to or

arriving from:



Any injury sustained on/or related to

working on property: address of

property

This release shall be binding upon

and inure to the benefit of the

parties, their successors, assigns and

personal representatives.




Signed this _________________

day of ___________, 20_____ .

In

the presence of:

Witness:

_________________________

Releasor: ____________________


Asked on 7/29/08, 4:29 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Ronald Mahurin Law Offices of Ronald Glenn Mahurin

Re: General Release Form

You can use the release. However, it will be ineffective because it contradicts statute. For example, if you and a friend make a contract saying that if any party to your agreement is caught speeding only one of you will be liable, it will have no effect if both of you are, in fact, caught speeding. Your relase is similar. You cannot undermine the law by writing an agreement.

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Answered on 7/30/08, 11:43 pm


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