Case: Individual Employment Rights/Workers’ Compensation (Va. Ct. App.)

The Virginia Court of Appeals affirmed the state Workers’ Compensation Commission’s award of temporary total disability and medical benefits to a construction worker who was injured when a concrete wall collapsed on him, rejecting the Uninsured Employers’ Fund’s appeal that Gencon his employer lacked the three employees “regularly in service” required for jurisdiction under the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act, finding that subcontractors’ employees who regularly worked on Gencon’s projects counted toward the three-employee threshold.

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