Franks v. Avila

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The claimant in this workers’ compensation case fell and injured his neck during the course of his employment with Carlos Rojas, a stucco subcontractor. The claimant was working at the time on a construction project for which appellant Jay Franks d/b/a Georgia Techniques, Inc., was the general contractor. The administrative law judge found that the immediate employer, Rojas, was primarily liable for payment of workers’ compensation benefits and that appellant Franks, as general contractor, was secondarily liable “in the event that income benefits and medical expenses…