Tommy Nobis Center v. Barfield

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

The principal question for decision in this workers’ compensation case is whether claimant was an “employee” within the meaning of the Act. The employer, Tommy Nobis Center, Inc., is a non-profit corporation which trains handicapped persons participating in a Job Training Partnership Act (“JTPA”) program. It takes the position that claimant, a participant in such a program, was a “trainee” — not an “employee” — and that, therefore, he was not entitled to workers’ compensation protection.

Claimant, a 52-year-old man, was severely injured in an automobile accident in…