Howmet Corporation and Indemnity Insurance Company of North America v. Ronald L. Smith

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
Present: 	Judges Benton, Haley and Senior Judge Coleman
HOWMET CORPORATION AND
INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NORTH AMERICA
MEMORANDUM OPINION*
v. 	Record No. 1240-07-1 	PER CURIAM
SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
RONALD L. SMITH
FROM THE VIRGINIA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION
(Arthur T. Aylward; Angela F. Gibbs; Midkiff, Muncie & Ross,
P.C., on briefs), for appellants.
(Eugene R. Desaulniers, II, on brief), for appellee.
Howmet Corporation and its insurer appeal a decision of the Workers’ Compensation
Commission awarding benefits to Ronald L. Smith for hearing loss as a compensable ordinary
disease of life. We have reviewed the record and the commission’s opinion and hold that this
appeal is without merit. Accordingly, we affirm the award for the reasons stated by the
commission in its final opinion. See Smith v. Howmet Corp., VWC File No. 224-25-75 (April
24, 2007). We dispense with oral argument and summarily affirm because the facts and legal
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.
* Pursuant to Code § 17.1-413, this opinion is not designated for publication.