Hardly a Clean Sweep:An Analysis of the Supreme Court of Virginia'sTreatment of Statutory Employee Litigation
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The decision in Clean Sweep Prof'l Parking Lot Maint., Inc., v. Talley1 reveals the Supreme Court of Virginia's challenging task of applying the Commonwealth's workers' compensation scheme to industrial accident cases. Fraught with fine-line distinctions, which in many instances nullify a plaintiff s common law negligence claim, case law in this area deserves close attention. Verdicts in such statutory employee cases turn on the facts and offer counsel on both sides the opportunity to creatively argue their client's position.
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