Rockingham Memorial Hospital and Reciprocal of America, et al. v. Barbara Lee Shifflett

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
Present: 	Judges Kelsey, Petty and Senior Judge Bumgardner
ROCKINGHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND
RECIPROCAL OF AMERICA, in liquidation,
VIRGINIA PROPERTY & CASUALTY
INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
MEMORANDUM OPINION*
v. 	Record No. 2198-06-3 	PER CURIAM
DECEMBER 28, 2006
BARBARA LEE SHIFFLETT
FROM THE VIRGINIA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION
(Kristin A. Zech; Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, P.L.C., on brief), for
appellants.
(A. Thomas Lane, Jr., on brief), for appellee.
Rockingham Memorial Hospital and its insurer appeal a decision of the Workers’
Compensation Commission finding that Barbara Lee Shifflett established she sustained a change
in condition causally related to her compensable right knee injury, and, therefore, the two-year
limitations period contained in Code § 65.2-708, rather than the one-year limitations period
contained in Code § 65.2-501, was applicable to her claim for temporary total disability benefits
filed on July 7, 2005. We have reviewed the record and the commission’s opinion and find that
this appeal is without merit. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the commission in
its final opinion. See Shifflett v. Rockingham Memorial Hosp., VWC File No. 196-87-88 (Aug.
3, 2006). We dispense with oral argument and summarily affirm because the facts and legal
* Pursuant to Code § 17.1-413, this opinion is not designated for publication.

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