Southern Express v. Green

In this appeal, we decide whether chilblains that the claimant suffered as a result of being exposed to cold temperature in a walk-in cooler during a four-hour period constitute an “injury by accident” under the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act). Because the claimant proved that she sustained the injury at a particular time and place and upon a particular occasion, that it was caused by an identifiable incident, and that it resulted in a structural change in her body, we will affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals that the injury is compensable under the Act.

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Clara Louise…