Uninsured Employers' Fund v. Brewster

CHARLES E. MOORE, Special Justice.

This case traveled a tortuous route to arrive here. On November 18, 1985, Donald Brewster initiated the journey by filing an application for adjustment of his workers’ compensation claim seeking total disability as a result of coal worker’s pneumo-coniosis. He alleged his employment at Energy Works, Inc. last exposed him to coal dust.

Energy Works, Inc. carried no workers’ compensation insurance. The Workers’ Compensation Board joined the Uninsured Employers’ Fund (“Fund”) as a Defendant.

The Fund defended on the basis Mr. Brewster was a self-employed person.

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