Wampler-Longacre, et al. v Shirley M. Young

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
Present: 	Chief Judge Moon, Senior Judges Cole and Duff
WAMPLER-LONGACRE, INC.
AND
PACIFIC EMPLOYERS INSURANCE COMPANY 	MEMORANDUM OPINION*
PER CURIAM
v. 	Record No. 0449-96-3 	JUNE 18, 1996
SHIRLEY M. YOUNG
FROM THE VIRGINIA WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION
(Cathleen P. Welsh; Wharton, Aldhizer &
Weaver, on brief), for appellants.
(A. Thomas Lane, Jr., on brief), for
appellee.
Wampler-Longacre, Inc. and its insurer contend that the
Workers' Compensation Commission erred in finding that Shirley M.
Young's left trigger thumb qualifies as an occupational "disease"
under the Workers' Compensation Act.
*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. ___, ___, 467 S.E.2d 795, 802
(1996) (holding that "job-related impairments resulting from
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").
Accordingly, we reverse the commission's decision.
Reversed.