Chandler v. Hancock Builders, Inc.

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Pursuant to our grant of his application for a discretionary appeal, James D. Chandler appeals from the judgment of the superior court reversing the award of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation because the superior court found there was “insufficient competent evidence” in the record to support the board’s decision that Hancock Builders, Inc., was subject to the Workers’ Compensation Act and, hence, was Chandler’s statutory employer.

The record shows that when injured Chandler was an employee of a subcontractor working on a Hancock Builders’ project. Because…