Under the Workers' Compensation Law, most individuals providing services to a for-profit business will be deemed an employee of that business and therefore must be covered by the employer for workers' compensation insurance.
Seminal works, sometimes called pivotal or landmark studies, are articles that initially presented an idea of great importance or influence within a particular discipline.
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others. one who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress: pioneers in cancer research.