Virginia Department of State Police v. Talbert

Opinion

COLEMAN, J.

This appeal from the Industrial Commission presents the issue whether, as a matter of law, the employer overcame the rebuttable presumption created by Code § 65.1-47.1 that the death of a police officer caused by heart disease is an occupational disease suffered in the line of duty covered by the Workers’ Compensation Act. The employer, the Virginia Department of State Police, contends that the medical evidence presented to the Commission overwhelmingly established certain specific non-work-related causes of the decedent’s heart disease, and further, that the medical…