Wampler-Longacre, Inc. v. Young

Full title: WAMPLER-LONGACRE, INC. AND PACIFIC EMPLOYERS INSURANCE COMPANY v. SHIRLEY…

Court: Court of Appeals of Virginia

Date published: Jun 18, 1996

Record No. 0449-96-3 (Va. Ct. App. Jun. 18, 1996)

Opinion

Record No. 0449-96-3

June 18, 1996

Appeal from the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.

(Cathleen P. Welsh; Wharton, Aldhizer Weaver, on brief), for appellants.

(A. Thomas Lane, Jr., on brief), for appellee.

Present: Chief Judge Moon, Senior Judges Cole and Duff.

MEMORANDUM OPINION^_

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

PER CURIAM

Wampler-Longacre, Inc. and its insurer contend that the Workers' Compensation Commission erred in finding that Shirley M. Young's left trigger thumb qualifies as an occupational "disease" under the Workers' Compensation Act.

This appeal is controlled by the Supreme Court's decision inStenrich Group v. Jemmott, ___ Va. ___, ___, 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.