Where a truck driver tripped over a mat when departing his employment location but only speculated about what caused him to trip, he did not show that the resulting knee injury resulted from an actual risk of his employment. Background ...

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The Joint Legislative and Audit Commission is conducting its first study on workers’ compensation in Virginia in almost 30 years. JLARC, which evaluates government programs and analyzes state agencies on behalf of the Virginia General Assembly, has been researching Virginia ...

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BY DEBORAH WOOD BLEVINS and ANTOINETTE MOORE The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission turns 100 years old this year. The Workers’ Compensation Act was enacted by the Virginia General Assembly in March 1918. In 1919, the Industrial Commission, the predecessor of the ...

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Where an administrative judge explained why an expert convincingly opined that a miner who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for 50 years did not suffer from black lung disease, the miner was not entitled to benefits under the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Julius N. Richardson Workers' Compensation

Where a pro se claimant failed to comply with multiple rules of the court, her appeal is dismissed. Background On May 15, 2017, Bricia Roslyn Bryant was awarded medical benefits and two days of total disability benefits for a compensable ...

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Although the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission concluded the claimant’s injury was compensable, it failed to identify when the injury specifically occurred, as required by the law. Because there appears to be sufficient evidence in the record to allow this finding, ...

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Temporary continuing workers’ compensation benefits for a total disability were properly suspended in a case where the claimant was partially disabled due to a work-related injury and became totally disabled due to kidney failure that was unrelated to his work. ...

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Where an employee suffered head injuries in a compensable work accident and was awarded wage benefits for those injuries approximately nine months later, her application for additional benefits stemming from that same injury, filed more than two years after the ...

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Testimony from the claimant and his doctors that his prior left knee injury caused his right knee injury was sufficient to support the commission’s decision. Background Claimant’s original injury was a left knee meniscal tear, which was treated by a ...

Tagged with: Judge Jean Harrison Clements Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

The claimant sustained a right ankle and foot injury arising out of and in the course of her employment. The overcompensation to her right lower extremity caused her to have issues with her left lower extremities. Her medication caused dry ...

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