Court of Appeals of Virginia, 2012

VCU Health System Authority v. Sherry Brown

VCU Health System Authority v. Sherry Brown
Court of Appeals of Virginia · Decided February 7, 2012

VCU Health System Authority v. Sherry Brown

Opinion

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA

Present: Judges Elder, Beales and Senior Judge Annunziata

VCU HEALTH SYSTEM AUTHORITY MEMORANDUM OPINION * v. Record No. 2073-11-2 PER CURIAM FEBRUARY 7, 2012 SHERRY BROWN

FROM THE VIRGINIA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION (James G. Muncie, Jr.; Angela F. Gibbs; Midkiff, Muncie & Ross, P.C., on brief), for appellant.

No brief for appellee.

VCU Health System Authority appeals a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission finding that Sherry Brown sustained a compensable injury by accident arising out of her employment when she repeatedly placed a morbidly obese patient’s foot onto the foot pedal of a wheelchair while in a squatting position for a couple of minutes, which established a work-related exertion that caused her injury. We have reviewed the record and the commission’s opinion and find that this appeal is without merit. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the commission in its final opinion. See Brown v. VCU Health Sys. Auth., VWC File No. VA000-0036-3696 (Sept. 26, 2011). We dispense with oral argument and summarily affirm because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the Court and argument would not aid the decisional process. See Code § 17.1-403; Rule 5A:27.

Affirmed.

* Pursuant to Code § 17.1-413, this opinion is not designated for publication.

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