MCV Hospital/Commonwealth v Violet Ford-Hill

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
Present: 	Chief Judge Moon, Senior Judges Cole and Duff
MCV HOSPITAL/COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
v. 	Record No. 2118-95-2 	MEMORANDUM OPINION*
PER CURIAM
VIOLET FORD-HILL 	MARCH 19, 1996
FROM THE VIRGINIA WORKERS'
COMPENSATION COMMISSION
(James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General;
Catherine C. Hammond, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General; Gregory E. Lucyk, Senior
Assistant Attorney General; Raymond L.
Doggett, Jr., Assistant Attorney General,
on briefs), for appellant.
(Geoffrey R. McDonald; Laura L. Geller;
McDonald & Snesil, on brief), for appellee.
MCV Hospital/Commonwealth of Virginia ("employer") contends
that the Workers' Compensation Commission erred in finding that
(1) Violet Ford-Hill's bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome qualifies
as a compensable occupational disease within the meaning of
"disease" under the Workers' Compensation Act ("the Act"); (2)
Ford-Hill's carpal tunnel syndrome was caused by her employment;
and (3) Dr. Robert S. Adelaar was an authorized treating
physician.
*Pursuant to Code § 17-116.010 this opinion is not
designated for publication.
This appeal is controlled by the Supreme Court's decision in
Stenrich Group v. Jemmott, ___ Va. ___, ___, ___ S.E.2d ___, ___
(1996) (holding that "job-related impairments resulting from

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cumulative trauma caused by repetitive motion, however labeled or
however defined, are, as a matter of law, not compensable under
the present provisions of the Act"). 	Because Stenrich is
dispositive of this appeal, we need not address the remaining
questions presented by employer.
Accordingly, we reverse the commission's decision.
Reversed.