Texas Staffing Agencies Lose Appeal Over Worker Forklift Injury

Two Texas staffing agencies failed to prove that they weren’t negligent for the injuries of an employee who allegedly wasn’t qualified to work at the company he was placed at, a Texas court of appeals ruled.

NCH Corp. and its subsidiary Retail Products Group, which used staffing agencies ESI/Employee Solutions and Employee Solutions Arlington to hire workers for its distribution center, won’t have to pay ESI and ES for attorney’s fees, expenses, and other costs in a suit arising from forklift driver Timothy Price’s injury, the Texas Court of Appeals, Fifth District, said.

Price began to work for RPG in ...