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· 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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Judges: Keenan

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