BLUE RIDGE MARKET. INC. v. PATTON

Record No. 0493-02-3.

575 S.E.2d 574 (2003)

39 Va. App. 592

BLUE RIDGE MARKET OF VIRGINIA, INC. and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Philmon H. PATTON.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Salem.

January 21, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul C. Kuhnel (Christopher W. Stevens; WootenHart PLC, on brief), Roanoke, for appellants.

(Ginger J. Largen; Morefield & Largen, P.L.C., on brief), Abingdon, for appellee. Appellee submitting on brief.

Present: HUMPHREYS, AGEE and KELSEY, JJ.


AGEE, Judge.

Blue Ridge Market of Virginia, Inc., and its insurance carrier, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company ("employer"), appeal a decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission ("commission") awarding benefits to Philmon H. Patton ("Patton"). The employer alleges that the commission erred (1) by awarding benefits for aggravation of Patton's carpal tunnel syndrome because it was a pre-existing ordinary disease of life, and (2) by including that portion of Patton...

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