ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS v. HANDEL

Record No. 190957.

848 S.E.2d 816 (2020)

ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, et al. v. Kerri HANDEL.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 15, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Bliley (Thomas, Thomas & Hafer, on briefs), for appellants.

M. Thomas McWeeny ( Julie H. Heiden ; Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis & Lightfoot, on brief), for appellee.

Amici Curiae: Prince William County Public Schools, Virginia Risk Sharing Association, and Virginia Self-Insurers Association ( Ralph L. Whitt, Jr. , Glen Allen; Megan Kerwin Clark ; A. Jacob Perkinson ; Whitt & Del Bueno, on brief), in support of appellants.

PRESENT: Lemons, C.J., Goodwyn, Mims, Powell, Kelsey, and McCullough, JJ., and Koontz, S.J.


In this appeal, we consider whether the Court of Appeals correctly defined and applied the legal standard for determining whether a workers' compensation claimant suffered a compensable "injury by accident" to her shoulder.1

I. BACKGROUND AND MATERIAL PROCEEDINGS BELOW

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