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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The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly rejected a school district’s argument that a math teacher could return to work despite vision issues arising from her fall in a school parking lot. Overview Claimant suffered a concussion when she fell. She ...

Tagged with: Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

Workers’ Compensation Type of Action: Workers’ compensation Injures: Quadriplegic  Special Damages: Expected permanent total disability and entitlement to lifetime medical benefits including home health care Verdict or Settlement: Settlement Amount: $3,800,000 Date of Settlement: 2020 Attorneys for Plaintiff: Andrew Reinhardt, ...

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Even though the claimant’s injury arose during the course of his employment, he was correctly denied workers’ compensation benefits because the injury did not arise out of his employment as a plumber.  There was no evidence that the circumstances under ...

Tagged with: Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

The injured worker is a Canadian citizen who lives in British Columbia. He was a competitive professional ice skater prior to his accident. On April 2, 1990, he was working for Disney On Ice and supplemented his skating salary by ...

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Where the Workers’ Compensation Commission ruled, in alternate holdings, that the employee’s submissions of medical bills for payment by her employer were timely under two different sections of the relevant statute and the employer only appealed one of the holdings, ...

Tagged with: Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

Where a treating physician consistently noted that claimant’s neck and shoulder strains were the result of a workplace injury, and that she had reached “maximum medical improvement,” the Workers’ Compensation Commission properly awarded claimant temporary total disability benefits. Further, the ...

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The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly determined that claimant’s complained-of injuries to his left ear, nose, face and neck were not compensable injuries. The commission also properly ruled that his post-accident seizures were unrelated to his workplace accident. Claimant filed ...

Tagged with: Judge Mary Bennett Malveaux Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

Where the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission determined that claimant’s automobile accident injuries were not compensable because they did not arise out of and in the course of his employment, his appeal is summarily dismissed because it is jurisdictionally and procedurally ...

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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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