12.2.6.3 Direct Employer's Joint Venturer and Spouse

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

. For purposes of workers’ compensation, each individual joint venturer is the employer of all employees doing work on behalf of the joint venture even if only one of the joint venturers hired, paid, and supervised the workers. The right to actually direct the work of the employees can be properly delegated from one joint venturer to another without affecting the immunity of either.^[124] Each joint venturer is protected by the exclusive remedy provisions of the workers’ compensation law.

The elements of a joint venture are: (1) a contract; (2) a common purpose; (3) a community of interest; and (4) an equal right of control. All must be present for a joint venture to exist.^[125]

In Garcia v. City of South Tucson,^[126] a team of police officers from Tucson assisted a team of officers from South Tucson in apprehending a suspect. The...