In re the Claim of Lortz

—Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed October 23, 1998, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because she was not totally unemployed.

In August 1997, while employed as a director of sales and marketing for a mediation and arbitration company, claimant established her own mediation and arbitration business and filed a business certificate to reflect this circumstance. Claimant ordered business cards and stationery, contracted for a business telephone line and arranged for yellow pages advertising and…