Hopkins v. Kobos Co.

Claimant in this workers’ compensation case received room and board from Victory Outreach Ministries (Victory), a charitable religious institution. Victory partly supported itself by providing labor — its residents — to businesses for special projects, in return for which the businesses made “donations” to the institution. Claimant injured himself while working on such a project and sought workers’ compensation from the business, Kobos Co. He neither sought compensation from nor claimed to be employed by Victory, probably because a person whose work is “performing services primarily for board…