Arnold v. Palmer

*611Morse, J.

¶ 14. (Ret.), Specially Assigned, dissenting. To exist in “virtual” form means “in effect or essence though not in actual fact, form or name.” Webster’s II New Riverside University Dictionary 1290 (1984).

¶ 15. Although defendant landowners in this ease — two trusts and a limited liability corporation — have separate legal identities from the employers that created them, they are separate in “form or name” only. Hence, they fall squarely within the statutory definition of “employer” under the Workers’ Compensation Act, as the

owner ... of premises ... who is virtually the proprietor or…