Faso v. Music Performance Trust Funds

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed April 28, 1976, as amended by a decision filed July 8, 1976. Claimant seeks benefits under the Disability Benefits Law (Workmen’s Compensation Law, art 9). That article excludes from coverage any "persons engaged in a professional or teaching capacity in or for a religious, charitable or educational institution” (Workmen’s Compensation Law, §201, subd 5). No one disputes that the employer is a charitable organization, but the question remains whether the claimant, a professional musician, is a "professional” within the…