Shira v. National Business Systems, Inc.

This is the defendants’1 appeal from a decision by the workers’ compensation review division, affirming a decision by the workers’ compensation commissioner granting the plaintiff’s motion to *351preclude defenses.2 The defendants claim that the motion to preclude was improperly granted because (1) there was no employee-employer relationship at the time the plaintiff’s injury occurred, (2) the plaintiffs written notice of claim was technically defective, and (3) there was no prima facie evidence of any injury.

A claimant must first prove an employee-employer relationship before the Connecticut…