WOODLIFF v. Fitzpatrick

BEASLEY, Judge.

Ernest Todd Woodliff (Plaintiff) appeals from an Opinion and Award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (Commission) denying Plaintiff benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act (Act). Specifically, Plaintiff challenges the Commission’s jurisdictional finding of insufficient evidence that Thomas Fitzpatrick d/b/a/ Custom Woodwork Unlimited and Thomas Fitzpatrick individually (collectively Defendant) regularly employed three or more employees and conclusion that “Defendant is not an employer subject to the provisions of the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act” such…