CINNAMON v. INTERN. BUSINESS MACHINES

Record No. 880325.

384 S.E.2d 618 (1989)

Michael E. CINNAMON v. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen A. Crist (Peter C. DePaolis, Koonz, McKenney & Johnson, P.C., Falls Church, on briefs), for appellant.

Benjamin J. Trichilo (E. Stanley Murphy, Lewis, Tydings, Bryan & Trichilo, P.C., Fairfax, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, WHITING and LACY, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


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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