Virginia Fibre Corp. v. Moore

Opinion

KOONTZ, J.

Virginia Fibre Corporation (Virginia Fibre) and its workers’ compensation insurer, American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company, appeal a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission (the commission) awarding permanent partial disability to claimant Wallace D. Moore (Moore) for a 15 percent hearing loss in his right ear and a 43.3 percent hearing loss in his left ear. Virginia Fibre maintains that it is entitled to offset Moore’s hearing loss by his measurable pre-employment hearing loss, thereby reducing the level of hearing loss attributable to the employment and…