Virginia Court of Appeals: Asbestos Cases

Our case-law library holds 4 asbestos decisions from the Virginia Court of Appeals (1990–2012). Each links to our summary and the full opinion.

• State: Virginia
• Kind of court: State appeals court

Decisions

• National College OF Business and Technology, Inc. v. Malveaux (2012). The Court of Appeals of Virginia affirmed the circuit court's ruling that the College's asbestos-related workplace safety violations were "other than serious" with no penalty, not "de minimis," so the Commissioner prevailed over the College.
• National College OF Business and Technology, Inc. v. Davenport (2011). The Court of Appeals affirmed the circuit court's finding that the College's employees were exposed to the asbestos hazard, but reversed the finding that the violations were "serious" and remanded for the Commissioner to re-determine the penalty, so the College won in part and the Commissioner won in part.
• Robertson v. DuPONT (2002). The Court of Appeals of Virginia affirmed the Workers' Compensation Commission, which had denied the widow's claim for temporary total disability benefits and set the permanent partial disability benefits using the wage Mr. Robertson earned at DuPont twenty-six years earlier, so DuPont prevailed and the widow lost.
• Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. v. Williams (1990). The Court of Appeals of Virginia affirmed the Industrial Commission's award to claimant Williams, rejecting Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company's argument that the weekly wage should be based on his lower later earnings at Frederick County Electric.