Hill v. Davis

Opinion

BARROW, J.

In this appeal of a denial of workers’ compensation benefits, we are bound by our decision in Cafaro Construction Co. v. Strother, 15 Va. App. 656, 426 S.E.2d 489 (1993). However, we note that Cafaro applied a rule to permanent total disability which may be applicable only to permanent partial disability. Nevertheless, we must affirm.

The employee, then a fifty-eight year old roofer, injured his left leg, right heel, ankle, hip, nerves, and spine when he fell off a ladder at work in 1983. He later developed “severe traumatic arthritis” and nerve injuries as a result of the…