Suit Barred After Comp Award

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 19, 2012

Tags: Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn, Supreme Court of Virginia, Workers’ Comp

A wool press operator injured while working for a lawyer’s side business of raising sheep and manufacturing wool cannot sue the lawyer for negligence after collecting workers’ comp benefits from the Uninsured Employers Fund because the wool and sheep operation did not carry workers’ compensation insurance; the Supreme Court of Virginia upholds the circuit court ...

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