Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Bower

Circuit City Stores, Inc. and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (collectively employer) appeal from an order in which the trial court, pursuant to former Code § 65.1-43 (now Code § 65.2-311), required the employer to pay a certain portion of the attorney’s fees and expenses incurred by Wanda C. Bower, Administrator (Bower), in her settlement of a wrongful death action resulting from her husband’s death.*

Terry Bower was killed in a plane crash arising out of and in the course of his employment with Circuit City Stores, Inc. As a result of his death, Wanda C. Bower and his three children were…