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There is no “good faith exception” when it comes to hand-delivering a list of employer-approved doctors to an employee with compensable injuries as required by the Workers Compensation Act, the Court of Appeals of Virginia has held. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission agreed with the employer’s argument that it shouldn’t be responsible for the employee’s ...
Where appellant inmate challenged a statute’s constitutionality, the trial court erred by ruling appellant did not present an “actual controversy” to the court. Background “Edwards, an inmate, was charged under Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) Operating Procedure (‘OP’) 861.1 for violating disciplinary offense code 213, ‘failing to follow institutional count procedures or interfering with count.’ ...
The Court of Appeals of Virginia has affirmed a lower court’s ruling to enforce a contingent-fee agreement between two Virginia attorneys after they disagreed over the percentage of the contingency fee. The prevailing attorney argued the proper percentage was one-third of any recovery obtained by settlement, while the other attorney claimed that the agreed-upon percentage ...
Where a statute repealing Code § 18.2-250.1 (possession of marijuana) was enacted before appellant's conviction, the common-law rule of abatement does not void his conviction. Virginia's saving statute, Code § 1-239, controls the result in this case. The conviction is affirmed. Under Code § 1-239, “when the General Assembly explicitly and unambiguously repeals a statute, ...
Civil Practice Appellant’s statute of limitations issue cannot be reached because she did not file a transcript or a statement of facts pertaining to the trial court hearing. Depaz v. The Council of Co-Owners of the Westerlies Condominium Ass’n, Record No. 0228-22-4, Oct. 25, 2022. CAV (per curiam) From the Circuit Court of Fairfax County ...
The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission correctly awarded an injured school bus driver temporary total disability benefits for a five-day period. The commission properly determined her change in condition was causally related to a work-related car accident four years earlier. Background On May 9, 2017, claimant school bus driver was injured when a vehicle rear-ended her ...
A prenuptial agreement signed the day before a couple’s wedding was unenforceable because the groom failed to disclose $10 million in assets, the Court of Appeals of Virginia has ruled. The groom argued that the lack of disclosure didn’t matter, because the bride should have realized his worth due to her work at his property ...
Civil Practice “Wesseh argues that the circuit court erred in dismissing her appeal and finding that it did not have jurisdiction over the matter. We find that Wesseh failed to preserve her arguments for appeal. … Wesseh has failed to file a transcript of the January 14, 2022 hearing on Lyft’s motion to dismiss. Additionally, ...