As claimant’s opening brief does not comply with Rule 5A:20(e), which mandates that her opening brief include the standard of review and argument relating to each assignment of error, the Court of Appeals cannot review her claim of error and ...

Tagged with: Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

An administrative assistant for a physician demonstrated that she suffered from reactive airway disease resulting from chemical exposure in the workplace and the Court of Appeals affirms an award of workers’ comp benefits. The local fire department reported to the ...

Tagged with: Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

An employer’s voluntary payment of medical benefits to plaintiff, a cook and custodian for a community action agency, after she fell at her workplace did not constitute a de facto workers’ comp award, and the Court of Appeals affirms the ...

Tagged with: Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

In these consolidated appeals by a workers’ comp carrier and cross-appeal by an orthopedic provider regarding a medical billing dispute, the Court of Appeals holds that 1) Illinois anti-as­signment law did not invalidate an agreement between the provider and First ...

Tagged with: Judge Teresa M. Chafin Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

Lawyers facing a court ruling on a novel point of law – with appeals certain to follow – managed to re­solve a wrongful death claim with a $700,000 settlement last month. The issue was whether a participant in a sheltered ...

Tagged with: Judge Clifford L. Athey Jr. Winchester Circuit Court Workers' Compensation

Lawyers facing a court ruling on a novel point of law – with appeals certain to follow – managed to resolve a wrongful death claim with a $700,000 settlement last month. The issue was whether a participant in a sheltered ...

Tagged with: Workers' Compensation

A claimant who continued to suffer pain in her knee from a work-related in­jury and who was released from released from treatment by the first doctor she saw, was entitled to change physicians and obtain additional diagnosis and treatment from ...

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

A claimant who worked in a light-duty capacity on a courthouse custodial staff after a work-related injury, who was laid off because employer decided to out­source its custodial needs, did not prove that her inability to find work after she ...

Tagged with: Judge Wesley G. Russell Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

The Court of Appeals affirms a commis­sion decision that claimant did not suffer a compensable injury by accident; appel­lant’s multiple procedural defaults pre­clude the appeals court from considering his claims on appeal. The court informed appellant by let­ter that his ...

Tagged with: Per Curiam Opinion Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation

A firefighter proved that he injured his cervical spine when he was assist­ing in removal of a 400-pound man who had fallen in the shower and broken his leg; the Court of Appeals reverses a decision of the Workers’ Compensation ...

Tagged with: Judge Richard Y. AtLee Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals Workers' Compensation