Williams v. Fuqua

How courts have described this case

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• stating that although “great weight should be given to the testimony of [a treating] physician, his opinion is not binding upon the [c]ommission”
• Commission may consider unsworn statements of medical experts and extracts from medical journals
• applying relaxed evidentiary standard to Virginia Industrial Commission hearings
• “The probative weight to be given [an attending physician’s] evidence is for the Commission to determine, and if it is doubtful and in conflict with other medical evidence, the Commission is free to adopt that which is most consistent with reason and justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).