A divided Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the state Workers’ Compensation Commission has no jurisdiction to decide a city's entitlement to recover the sick leave payments it had made to a retired firefighter on the basis that he had also received workers' compensation for the same disability period.
Case: City of Danville v. Tate, No. 140011, 01/08/2014, published.
Facts: O. Ryland Tate worked as a firefighter for the City of Danville. In March 2009, he suffered a heart attack in March 2009 which disabled him from continuing to work.
Tate received sick leave pay equal to his...
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