Cook v. Norvell-Mackorell Real Estate Co.

WELLS, Judge.

Plaintiff brings forward a single argument challenging the Commission’s finding and concluding that defendant Norvell-Mackorell was acting as agent for the owners of the property in procuring roofing services from plaintiff’s employer, Rainbow Roofing, and therefore was not plaintiff’s statutory employer within the meaning of G.S. § 97-19 of the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act. Because this raises the jurisdictional question of whether an employment relationship within the Act existed between plaintiff and Norvell-Mackorell at the time of the accident, the jurisdictional…