Plummer v. Kearney

GREENE, Judge.

Employee Bobby J. Plummer (Plummer) appeals from an order of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (the Commission) dismissing American Mutual Insurance Company (American Mutual), Helmsman Management Services, Inc. (Helmsman), Ashland Construction Company (Ashland), and CIGNA Insurance Company (CIGNA) as defendants in Plummer’s workers’ compensation action.

Plummer was employed as a laborer and fork lift driver by Bennie Kearney, doing business as Kearney’s Masonry (Kearney’s). In 1989, Kearney’s had an oral contract with Ashland to subcontract work at a job site in South…