Chavis Transfer v. Dicks

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Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Author Term
840975 - - - - June 14, 1985 Compton 1985

Holding

Consolidates Case Record No. 840975; Record No. 841037; Record No. 841046.

In this opinion, we discuss three workers’ compensation appeals resulting from separate industrial accidents involving two different claimants. The issues stem from the Industrial Commission’s application of Code § 65.1-63, relating to selective employment of disabled workers.

That statute is the focus of another case decided today. In Klate Holt Co. v. Holt, 229 Va. 544, 547, 331 S.E.2d 446, 448 (1985), we determined the Commission erred in holding that an employee was justified in refusing offers of selective employment. In the present cases, we deal with the validity and effect of a waiting period fashioned by the Commission in the course of its application of § 65.1-63 to the instant claims.