Anton v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

OPINION

CORCORAN, Judge.

The question we resolve in this special action is whether a worker, who serves as an instrumentality or conduit through which the business owner conducts virtually every discretionary facet of his enterprise, is an employee or an independent contractor for the purposes of workers’ compensation law. We hold that such a worker is an employee. The findings and award of The Industrial Commission, which conclude that petitioner was an independent contractor during the relevant periods of his association with respondent-employer Perkins and therefore is not entitled to…