Under the workers’ compensation act, appellant pharmacy is a health care provider and is bound by a one-year limitations period in which to seek reimbursement for prescriptions dispensed to a workers’ compensation claimant. Overview Dove injured her shoulder in a ...

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Where appellant accepted a deferred disposition agreement, under which he would be convicted of a misdemeanor instead of a felony if he abided by certain conditions for a year, he cannot challenge the agreement’s legality on appeal after he violated ...

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Where the trial court denied husband’s motion to allow late responsive pleadings to wife’s divorce complaint, the issue cannot be reviewed because husband did not provide a complete record for his appeal. Further, the trial court correctly awarded husband a ...

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Where appellant was convicted of robbing two convenience stores several hours apart, the trial court correctly rejected his defense that appellant was merely just present at the scene of each robbery. Overview Appellant Winfield drove Bailey to two different convenience ...

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The parties’ postnuptial agreement was not abrogated by their separations and reconciliations. The circuit court erred by relying on Code § 20-155 to conclude otherwise because the postnuptial agreement was neither a separation agreement nor a property settlement agreement. Overview ...

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A police investigator was correctly allowed to provide hearsay testimony at a suppression hearing about information obtained from a confidential informant. The information was reliable. Further, any issue of reliability would go to the weight, rather than the admissibility, of ...

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Where appellant claimed his appointed defense counsel had not prepared him for trial, the trial court correctly treated appellant’s assertion as a motion to withdraw counsel and properly denied the motion after hearing counsel describe her pretrial preparations with appellant. ...

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Claimant’s award agreement with his employer for work-related injuries did not preserve his claim of a shoulder injury. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly ruled that he failed to reassert the claim within the statute of limitations. Background Lazo, the ...

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The record supports the trial court’s granting a divorce based on father’s adultery. The court’s custody award and the equitable distribution of marital property are likewise affirmed. However, the court’s awards of spousal support and child support are reversed. The ...

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In this divorce action, the trial court correctly ruled it could receive counsels’ stipulations as to property value but erred in part regarding determinations that certain real estate was husband’s separate property. The court also erred it classifying husband’s purchase ...

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