Hoult v. Workers' Compensation Commissioner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “In proving . . . causal connection, ‘[a] claimant in an occupational disease case is not required to negative all possible non-occupational causes of the disease.’” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ball v. Joy Manufacturing Co.
  S.D. West Virginia· 1990-11-08· cited 23×
• Diamond Fuel Oil v. O'NEAL
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-08-16· cited 12×
• Columbia W. Va. Corp. v. Terry L. Brown
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-05-16
• Dorothy Dawson v. Hancock County Board of Education
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-02-03
• Fowler v. Perdue Farms, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-03-16
• Gabe's v. Keith Hayes
  Int. Ct. of App. of W.Va.· 2025-03-24

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sansom v. Workers' Compensation Commissioner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-07-09· cited 29×
• Powell v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 22×
• Hudson v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner & Union Carbide Corp.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-01-23· cited 7×
• Payne v. State Compensation Director
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-03-16· cited 1×