Reynolds v. McKenzie-Perry Homes, Inc.

Eldridge, Judge.

Clyde James Reynolds, Jr. was hired as an independent contractor/sole-proprietor for Pro Plumbing, a subcontractor of McKenzie-Perry Homes, Inc., here the developer-general contractor. Reynolds was injured in one of McKenzie-Perry’s houses under construction when the second-floor stairs collapsed. As a condition of the contract with Pro Plumbing, Reynolds had deducted from his payment checks, as sole-proprietor/independent contractor, the cost of adding him to Pro Plumbing’s workers’ compensation coverage with the Travelers Insurance Company. Thus, Reynolds did not come under…