Dennis K. Pennington v. Superior Iron Works

How courts have described this case

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• holding that courts will not give a statute retroactive effect when it effects a change in both substance and procedure
• noting that generally the statute in effect at the time of the injury governs workers’ compensation claims
• “In order for [a] statutory change ‘to apply retroactively, . . . it must be procedural in nature and affect remedy only, disturbing no substantive right or vested rights.’” (emphasis added) (quoting Cohen v. Fairfax Hosp. Ass’n, 12 Va. App. 702, 705 (1991))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).