POFF, Senior Justice.
This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a common-law, personal-injury action on the ground that the plaintiff's exclusive remedy was a claim under the Workers' Compensation Act. The sole issue is whether, as the trial court ruled, a manufacturer who engaged a general contractor to construct a building for use in the conduct of its business was the statutory employer of a worker hired by a subcontractor engaged by the general contractor to...
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