Hoffman v. Carter

How courts have described this case

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• noting a gradually incurred injury is not an “injury by accident” under the Act
• defining a compensable injury by accident under the Act as requiring proof, among other things, of “an obvious sudden mechanical or structural change in the body” (quoting Morris v. Morris, 238 Va. 578, 589 (1989))
• “The testimony of a claimant may [] be considered in determining causation . . . .” (alteration in original
• “employees of [the contractor’s] subcontractors are treated the same as [the contractor’s] own employees under the Act”
• employees of a subcontractor “are treated the same as” the contracting business’ “own employees”
• employees of a subcontractor “are treated the same as” the contracting business’ “own employees”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).