Johnson v. Jefferson National Bank

1 Citing case

  1. Rodriguez v. Leesburg Bus. Park, LLC

    287 Va. 187 (Va. 2014)   Cited 14 times
    Holding that a commercial property development company was not the statutory employer of a contractor hired to build warehouses on its property even though the company was "formed for the purposes of . . . improving . . . the property"

    Answering the question before us "is not a simple, straightforward exercise," Henderson v. Central Tel. Co., 233 Va. 377, 382, 355 S.E.2d 596, 599 (1987) ; it "depends upon the facts and circumstances of the particular case [and] ‘does not readily yield to categorical or absolute standards.’ " Johnson v. Jefferson Nat'l Bank, 244 Va. 482, 485, 422 S.E.2d 778, 780 (1992) (quoting Bassett Furniture Indus., Inc. v. McReynolds, 216 Va. 897, 902, 224 S.E.2d 323, 326 (1976) ). The Act's exclusivity provision, Code § 65.2–307(A), mandates that the rights and remedies provided in the Act "exclude all other rights and remedies" of a covered employee or his beneficiaries for injuries sustained in the course of employment.