Claim of Hill v. Thompson

— Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed October 16,1981. Subdivision 4 of section 2 of the Workers’ Compensation Law provides, in part, that “[t]he term ‘employee’ shall not include persons engaged by the owner in casual employment consisting of yard work, household chores and making repairs to or painting in and about a one-family owner-occupied residence”. The board has found that since claimant was doing carpentry work on a two-family house, the above-quoted exclusion did not apply. On appeal, the Uninsured Employers’ Fund contends that this finding is not…