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Yes, Virginia, There Might Be a Sanity Clause

By Jon Coppelman

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Two years ago we blogged the sad story of Arthur Pierce, a commercial driver in Virginia who suffered a traumatic brain injury and eventually died from a fall on the job. Pierce's death was deemed non-compensable due to a cruel and rather peculiar glitch in the Virginia comp statute. Under the law, if a worker suffers a brain injury that...

Full post as published by Workers Comp Insider on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).

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