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 ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen A. Huff Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

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 ...

Tagged with: Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

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 ...

Tagged with: Judge Randolph A. Beales Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

Where claimant, a registered nurse, was attacked by a patient while working for her employer, the evidence supports the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission’s findings that the employer did not provide adequate care following the attack. The record also supports the ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

The Virginia statute that blocks tort recovery against a fellow employee for on-the-job injuries doesn’t apply when those injuries were covered by Maryland, not Virginia, workers’ comp law, a circuit judge has ruled. The Nov. 13 decision by Fairfax Circuit ...

Tagged with: Judge Richard E. Gardiner Personal Injury Workers' Compensation

There was credible evidence to support the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission’s determination that plaintiff’s back and neck injuries were compensable consequences of her initial shoulder, arm and wrist injuries arising from being hit in the ankle by equipment at work. ...

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

The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly determined the average weekly wage of an injured hockey player by dividing his salary over a 52-week period rather than the number of weeks in the hockey season. The commission also correctly refused to ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

The claimant suffered a hernia while lifting boxes at an out-of-state trade show in 2005. Due to nerve entrapment complications related to the hernia mesh repair, the claimant required multiple surgical procedures over the years. The wage portion of the ...

Tagged with: Settlement Workers' Compensation

Plaintiff was born in 1977 and was a part-time worker for XYZ Corporation in Washington, D.C. On Jan. 31, 1997, plaintiff was seriously injured allegedly because of a defectively designed bridge plate between a side-loading trailer and the XYZ loading ...

Tagged with: Judge Nan Shuker Legal Malpractice Settlement Workers' Compensation