Knight Properties, Inc. v. Sanders

MYERS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This case arises from a dispute between two workers’ compensation insurance carriers over which is liable for compensation payments. Knight Properties, Inc. employed Kenny Sanders as a subcontractor. First Comp Insurance Company, Sanders’s insurer, purported to cancel his policy for nonpayment of premiums. One of Sanders’s employees was subsequently injured on the job. The employee sought compensation, contending that Sanders did not have workers’ compensation coverage and that Knight, the general contractor, was therefore his employer under the Mississippi…