Virginia Fibre Corp. v. Moore

Full title: VIRGINIA FIBRE CORPORATION, ET AL. v. WALLACE D. MOORE

Court: Supreme Court of Virginia

Date published: Jan 13, 1995

452 S.E.2d 360 (Va. 1995)

452 S.E.2d 360

Opinion

50000 Record No. 940382

January 13, 1995

Present: All the Justices

The Court of Appeals did not err in upholding the ruling of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission that the appellee is entitled to compensation for hearing loss without offset for pre-employment hearing loss and that judgment is affirmed.

Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Affirmed.

Melissa W. Scoggins (Linda Davis Frith; Gentry, Locke, Rakes Moore, on brief), for appellants.

No brief or argument for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

In this case, we awarded appellant an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeals holding that the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission did not err in ruling that appellee is entitled to compensation in an amount proportional to his percentage of hearing loss at the time of his 1991 audiogram, without offset for his pre-employment level of hearing loss. Virginia Fibre Corp. v. Moore, 17 Va. App. 691, 440 S.E.2d 432 (1994).

We have considered the question, and for the reasons stated in the opinion of the Court of Appeals, we will affirm the judgment below.

Affirmed.