FOOD DISTRIBUTORS v. ESTATE OF BALL

Record No. 1206-96-4.

485 S.E.2d 155 (1997)

24 Va. App. 692

FOOD DISTRIBUTORS and Century Indemnity Company v. ESTATE OF Kenneth Merrill BALL.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Alexandria.

May 13, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas Seymour, Washington, DC (Law Offices of E. Wayne Powell, Richmond, on brief), for appellants.

Kermit L. Racey, Woodstock (Racey & Racey, on brief), for appellee.

Present: MOON, C.J., and WILLIS and FITZPATRICK, JJ.


FITZPATRICK, Judge.

Food Distributors and its insurer (collectively referred to as "employer") contend that the Workers' Compensation Commission ("commission") erred in finding that (1) Kenneth Merrill Ball's (decedent) death by suicide was causally related to his compensable September 5, 1989 injury by accident; and (2) Code § 65.2-306(A)(1) did not bar compensation for the decedent's suicide. We conclude that the...

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