Chavis Transfer v. Dicks

In this opinion, we discuss three workers’ compensation appeals resulting from separate industrial accidents involving two different claimants. The issues stem from the Industrial Commission’s application of Code § 65.1-63, relating to selective employment of disabled workers.1

That statute is the focus of another case decided today. In Klate Holt Co. v. Holt, 229 Va. 544, 547, 331 S.E.2d 446, 448 (1985), we determined the Commission erred in holding that an employee was justified in refusing offers of selective employment. In the present cases, we deal with the validity and effect of a…