No Spa Pool on Doc’s Prescription

By Deborah Elkins
Published: July 21, 2011

Tags: Judge Robert P. Frank, Virginia Court of Appeals, Workers' Comp

A school board need not pay for the “spa pool” for an employee with back pain from a shoulder injury; although claimant had a doctor’s prescription, he did not show that a six-person home spa pool was medically necessary, and the Court of Appeals reverses the commission decision ordering payment by employer. Claimant saw a television ...

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