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Where claimant, a school maintenance manager, reported to his treating physicians that he was lifting mattresses at the school when he felt a sudden pain, a sharp, burning sensation in his neck, he has proven an injury by accident. The ...

Where claimant originally injured his lower back while operating a crane at work, and medical evidence indicated that that injury was exacerbated when claimant, while stopped at a stop light in the company pickup truck, was hit from behind in ...

Although the correctional officer worked in the jail “seeing to the care and confinement of the inmates” and did not perform the duties of a “law-enforcement officer,” she nevertheless was a duly authorized deputy sheriff and was entitled to occupational ...

Although defendant contends the commonwealth failed to disclose a criminal conviction of a commonwealth witness and this omission violated his right to due process, defendant’s claim is rejected. Based upon a review of the record before us, we find that ...

Although the deputy commissioner, in evaluating certain inconsistencies in the accounts of claimant’s injury, found credible claimant’s representation that his heavily medicated condition affected his ability to communicate how the injury occurred, the commission nevertheless was entitled to reverse the ...

Although husband and wife, each a member of a different Muslim sect, were married by proxy in England, their marriage was not valid in Virginia and the trial judge erred by granting the parties a divorce and by equitably distributing ...

Where the trial court ruled that the father’s affidavit attesting to the circumstances allegedly warranting a change in custody established a prima facie case for change, this was clear error and the trial court’s order awarding a change in custody ...

Where defendant lawyer persuaded the victim, a client and member of his church, to turn over her inheritance to him to be managed and to execute a loan agreement even though “we all know” it was not a loan, and ...

Although the circuit court, after ordering father to pay child support, transferred this case to the juvenile and domestic relations court, and after that court became an experimental family court, mother filed a petition for a child support increase, but ...

Where the prosecutor exercised peremptory strikes against two of three African-American veniremembers, but offered as his reasons: 1) the first juror was a 28-year old woman, with no children, while the prosecutor thought the other jurors, mostly in their 30s ...