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Although claimant, a shoe salesperson who was injured in a fall in the employer’s stock room, weighed 196 pounds at the time of the accident and gained another 30 pounds during the year following the fall, the commission did not ...

Where the newest version of petitioner’s law practice neither “acquired nor succeeded to the organization, trade, separate establishment or business” of the former partnership, nor acquired substantially all the assets of the former law partnership, the circuit court affirms the ...

Although defendant in this DUI case complains that the certificate of analysis for his blood alcohol sample does not comply with Code § 18.2-268.7 because it contains no statement that the blood withdrawal certificate was removed by the director and ...

In her personal injury suit, plaintiff is precluded from recovering for medical expenses that have been discharged in bankruptcy because the collateral source rule allowing double recovery should not apply to create an incentive to file bankruptcy. By allowing an ...

Where plaintiff would receive no net recovery if he accepted the settlement offer of defendant’s carrier because of three creditors’ claims, even though two of the creditors have reduced their claims, the court reduced the other medical creditor’s lien by ...

Although the divorce decree issued in the parties’ prior case is unenforceable for lack of personal jurisdiction over the husband, the property settlement agreement incorporated into the decree remains enforceable as a contract in this proceeding where husband has entered ...

Where wife has been the primary caretaker of the parties’ two children, husband works seven days a week as an attorney, and wife has taken the parties’ children for counselling that husband deems unnecessary, the court concludes that wife should ...

Where husband made the majority of monetary contributions to an 18-year marriage and the parties’ non-monetary contributions were equal but wife suffers from emotional problems and the children of the marriage desire limited contact with their mother, the court distributes ...

Where employer accepted employee’s claim but employee refused treatment by a neurosurgeon whose recommendation was confirmed by a second opinion and instead sought treatment from a chiropractor against the neurosurgeon’s advice, employer was not responsible for the cost of chiropractic ...

Where claimant waited one and one-half months to report an alleged accident and his story was undermined by other credible witnesses and not corroborated by any credible witnesses, the award of compensation is reversed. Claimant testified that around the middle ...