Despite a coverage dispute between decedent’s employer and its workers’ comp carrier, the commission had jurisdiction to award benefits to decedent’s widow after his work-related death by electrocution, and the Court of Appeals upholds the award of death benefits. At ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert P. Frank Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp

The Court of Appeals affirms a commission decision that claimant’s knee injury arose out of his employment at appellant’s paper mill, based on evidence of the unusual height of a step from a platform. The deputy commissioner found that claimant’s ...

Tagged with: Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp

The Court of Appeals upholds the commission’s denial and dismissal of a claim for permanent partial disability benefits; claimant did not show the 15 percent disability rating provided by a physician’s assistant had been reviewed by claimant’s treating physician, or ...

Tagged with: Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp

A security guard who fell backwards when she sat on a low brick wall at her workplace cannot show that her accident was causally related to any actual risk at her workplace, and the Court of Appeals reverses a workers’ ...

Tagged with: Judge Rudolph Bumgardner III Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp

The Court of Appeals upholds an award of permanent partial disability benefits for a claimant based on a medical finding of claimant’s diminished range of motion and loss of strength of 34 percent in her right arm. In reaching his ...

Tagged with: Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp

A discount store manager who had to maneuver around a stack of one-gallon water containers at the front of a cash register in order to close out a cash register at the end of the day, can recover workers’ comp ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp

A truck driver for defendant electronic waste disposal business who was injured on the job wins partial summary judgment against the company, which did not comply with Virginia law requiring it to carry workers’ compensation insurance; a Roanoke City Circuit ...

Tagged with: Judge David B. Carson Roanoke Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts Workers’ Comp

Virginia just got its 10th American Inn of Court, with the establishment of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation American Inn of Court. The American Inns of Court are a relatively new concept in this country; they are modeled after the old ...

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An airline employee who fell from the bed of a pickup truck while delivering airplane parts does not win workers’ comp benefits because there is no evidence that his fall arose out of the conditions of his employment, the Court ...

Tagged with: Justice Teresa M. Chafin Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp

A school custodian who tore her rotator cuff when she grabbed a sink in the school cafeteria in an effort to avert a fall is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits because she did not show her injury was causally ...

Tagged with: Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp