Bosley v. Shepherd

In this appeal, we consider issues arising from the trial of a personal injury action brought by a worker against the general contractor of a construction project, one of the general contractor’s employees, and a steel erection subcontractor.

Michael A. Shepherd was injured in November 1996 while using a boom crane to deposit gypsum sheathing (sheetrock) into a second-floor opening of a building under construction at the Dam Neck Naval Installation in Virginia Beach. The United States Navy, owner of the construction project, entered into a contract with W.B. Meredith, n, Inc. (Meredith), which…