Appeal of Longchamps Electric, Inc.

Longchamps Electric, Inc. (Longchamps) and its insurer, Hanover Insurance Co., appeal the decision of the compensation appeals board (board) that Thomas Pratte was an employee of Longchamps at the time of his work-related injury and is thus entitled to workers’ compensation benefits from Longchamps’ insurer. Longchamps argues that the board incorrectly applied the borrowed servant doctrine in determining that Pratte was its employee, and not the servant of Mikol Electrical Services and Controls Corp. (Mikol), at the time of the injury. For the following reasons, we affirm.

The facts of this…