Claim of Green v. Continental Transportation Lines, Inc.

Appellant contractor and its carrier appeal from an award of death benefits assessed against them pursuant to section 56 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The board in its memorandum of decision has found: “ Upon review of the record we find that the aforesaid Continental Transportation Lines, Inc., is a general contractor and having leased from Bertrand A. Hughes a truck with the driver, the said Bertrand A. Hughes is a subcontractor; that the decedent was an employee of Bertrand A. Hughes and that since the said Hughes has no insurance, Continental Transportation Lines, Inc., and its…