In re the Claim of Hazzard

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed March 7, 2006, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because he was not totally unemployed.

Claimant was an employee, member and shareholder of T Tools LLC. Claimant was one of four founding members of the company, another of whom was his wife. The company developed its own products and patented, manufactured and sold them until 2002, when it ceased most of its operations. At that point, the company remained in existence to complete the sale of the unsold patents…