Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University/Commonwealth of Virginia v. Julio Emilio Posada

WALTER S. FELTON, JR., Judge.

Virginia Polytechmc Institute (“employer”) 1 and Julio Posada (“claimant”), each appeal from an award of the Virgima Workers’ Compensation Commission (“commission”). Employer asserts that the commission erred in finding: (1) that it unreasonably defended its failure to pay medical benefits pursuant to an existing award; (2) that a 2003 agreement between the parties to increase Melanie Davis’ weekly 24-hour attendant care compensation rate was a valid modification of the commission’s 1997 order; and (3) that claimant’s wife’s services are compensable under Code §…