Regular, Short-Term Use of Subcontractors Sufficient to Establish Jurisdiction

The Virginia Court of Appeals on Tuesday held that the regular use of subcontractors to complete projects was sufficient to give the Workers' Compensation Commission jurisdiction over an injured worker's claim against his employer. While subcontractors or their employees worked for only a few days on Gencon projects in the year before Jose A. Zacarias Perez was injured, the fact that they were present at three of five jobsites was sufficient for the commission to consider them statutory employees. "Since this was Gencon's regular and recurrent practice, it does not matter &#...