Legal Opinion
Cooper v. Adler
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided November 16, 2004No. 2836034PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK, Judge.
Djuana Cooper (Cooper) appeals a decision from the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (commission) awarding benefits to her decedent infant son, Amori, pursuant to the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act (Act). Code §§ 38.2-5000 to 38.2-5021. Cooper claims the commission erred in: (1) adjudicating her common law claim of emotional distress; (2) transforming her common law claim into a claim for her infant child; (3) determining it had jurisdiction to preclude her from prosecuting her civil claim in circuit court and finding the Act was her exclusive…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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