Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: to sign representing Morin was a subcontractor. Muldoon testified he filled out paperwork designating Lauth as the sole owner of Lauth Contracting, LLC and asked Lauth to sign the document before Muldoon faxed the document to WSI. The record supports the ALJ's finding Muldoon willfully failed to provide workers' compensation coverage. V [ 15] Finally, Muldoon argues he is not personally liable for past premiums and penalties owed to WSI. An employer who wilfully fails to secure workers' compensation coverage is personally liable for past premiums and penalties owed. N.D.C.C. 65-04-33(2). When an individual is employed by a partnership, the partners are employers subject to personal liability. Klemmens v. N.D. Workmen's Comp. Bureau, 54 N.D. 496, 499-500, 209 N.W. 972, 973 (N.D.1926) (<HOLDING>). If the employer is a LLC, personal liability
Holding statements: (A) holding that absent an agreement to the contrary any partner can act as an agent of the partnership when apparently carrying on in the usual way the business of the partnership (B) holding one partner can not sic maintain an action at law against another partner to recover an amount claimed by him by reason of partnership transactions until there has been a final settlement of the affairs of the partnership (C) holding a mechanic working in a garage owned by a partnership is an employee of the partnership not the individual partner (D) holding that a partner who is without actual authority has no power to bind the partnership in a transaction that is not within the ordinary and apparent scope of the partnership business any person dealing with a partner can only rely on the partners acts if they are within the ordinary and apparent scope of the partnership business (E) holding that a partnership agreement that contained prohibitions against the sale or assignment of a partners interest in the partnership without the others consent would be enforced
A:
(C)