PHIPPS v. RANN INDUSTRIES, INC.

Record No. 0956-92-2.

429 S.E.2d 886 (1993)

Paul Dean PHIPPS v. RANN INDUSTRIES, INC. and Hanover Insurance Company.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

May 18, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary W. Kendall (Michie, Hamlett, Lowry, Rasmussen & Tweel, P.C., on brief), Charlottesville, for appellant.

Bevin R. Alexander, Jr. (Edmunds & Williams, P.C., on brief), Lynchburg, for appellees.

Present: BENTON and ELDER, JJ., and COLE, Retired Judge.


BENTON, Judge.

Paul Dean Phipps appeals from a decision denying him workers' compensation benefits. He contends that the commission applied an improper standard in determining that his actions constituted willful misconduct. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the order denying benefits.

I.

Phipps, who was nineteen years of age, was employed as a utility person for Rann Industries and had been working only thirty days prior to the incident at...

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