Eleanor A. Snellings v. Mary Washington Hospital and Reciprocal of America

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
Present: 	Judges Benton, Haley and Senior Judge Coleman
ELEANOR A. SNELLINGS
MEMORANDUM OPINION*
v. 	Record No. 2632-06-2 	PER CURIAM
FEBRUARY 27, 2007
MARY WASHINGTON HOSPITAL AND
RECIPROCAL OF AMERICA
FROM THE VIRGINIA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION
(Wesley G. Marshall, on briefs), for appellant.
(Andrew M. Alexander; Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, on brief), for
appellees.
Eleanor A. Snellings appeals a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission
denying her claim for an award of permanent partial disability benefits. The commission ruled
she failed to meet her burden of proving an impairment rating for permanent loss of use of her
right thumb. The commission also denied Snellings’s request to remand the case to allow
Dr. Kostas J. Constantine to “clarify” his opinion, and the commission refused to sua sponte
consider the AMA Guidelines to calculate the appropriate impairment rating for the thumb or
hand. We have reviewed the record and the commission’s opinion, and we hold this appeal is
without merit. Accordingly, we affirm the commission’s rulings for the reasons stated by the
commission in its final opinion, see Snellings v. Mary Washington Hosp., VWC File No.
213-25-83 (Sept. 19, 2006), and in its October 12, 2006 order denying Snellings’s motion for
reconsideration, which raised due process arguments. We dispense with oral argument and
summarily affirm because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the
* Pursuant to Code § 17.1-413, this opinion is not designated for publication.

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materials before the Court and argument would not aid the decisional process. See Code
§ 17.1-403; Rule 5A:27.
Affirmed.