Wills v. Ellsworth Motor Freightlines, Inc.

HARGRAVE, Chief Justice.

Before us for review is an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court en banc sustaining the trial authority’s order determining that claimant was not an employee of either Ellsworth Motor Freightlines, Inc., or Shamrock Coal Company, being instead an independent contractor, and denying *566workers’ compensation to claimant. Claimant contends that respondent Ellsworth was his workers’ compensation carrier and that he was an employee of respondent Shamrock Coal Company at the time of his injury. We have considered the arguments separately as to each respondent and sustain the…