Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Pope

Full title: SAFEWAY STORES, INC. v. JENSIE JOANNA POPE

Court: Court of Appeals of Virginia

Date published: Jul 23, 1996

Record No. 0757-96-4 (Va. Ct. App. Jul. 23, 1996)

Opinion

Record No. 0757-96-4

July 23, 1996

Appeal From The Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.

(Kevin J. O'Connell; O'Connell O'Connell, on brief), for appellant. Appellant submitting on brief.

(James F. Green; Ashcraft Gerel, on brief), for appellee. Appellee submitting on brief.

Present: Judges Bray, Annunziata and Overton.

MEMORANDUM OPINION^_

_ Pursuant to Code § 17-116.010 this opinion is not designated for publication.

PER CURIAM

Safeway Stores, Inc. contends that the Workers' Compensation Commission erred in finding that Jensie Joanna Pope's carpal tunnel syndrome qualifies as a compensable ordinary disease of life under the Workers' Compensation Act ("the Act").

This appeal is controlled by the Supreme Court's decision inStenrich Group v. Jemmott, 251 Va. 186, 199, 467 S.E.2d 795, 802 (1996) (holding that "job-related impairments resulting from cumulative trauma caused by repetitive motion, however labeled or however defined, are, as a matter of law, not compensable under the present provisions of the Act").

Accordingly, we reverse the commission's decision.

Reversed.