· 6/18/1991
Grimes v. Shenandoah Valley Press
Citations
- 406 S.E.2d 407
- 12 Va. App. 665
- 7 Va. Law Rep. 2956
- 1991 Va. App. LEXIS 143
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- refusing to deny benefits solely because employee would not have been hired but for the misrepresentation
- finding no causal relationship between claimant’s lumbo-sacral back injury and misrepresentation as to existence of prior “backaches” where prior back pain was caused by medical problems unrelated to back
- finding no causal connection between claimant’s lumbo-sacral back injury and misrepresentation as to existence of prior “backaches” where prior back pain was caused by medical problems unrelated to the back
- “The fact that an employee has [made a] misrepresentation] in a job application ... does not bar recovery where ... the misrepresentation ... is not proved by the employer to be causally connected to the consequent injury.”
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