Farmington Country Club, Inc. v. Marshall

The majority holds, based on the Supreme Court’s decisions in Amoco Foam Products Co. v. Johnson, 257 Va. 29, 510 S.E.2d 443 (1999), and Paul Johnson Plastering v. Johnson, 265 Va. 237, 576 S.E.2d 447 (2003), that the connection between claimant’s back injury and his subsequent development of GERD is too attenuated to permit coverage under the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act. I would hold credible evidence supports the commission’s finding that claimant’s GERD is caused or exacerbated by stress resulting from his compensable injury and that this relationship is sufficiently “direct” to…