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W. Va. Code § 23–4–1e(b), which prohibits an inmate housed at a state work release center from collecting workers’ compensation benefits for an injury sustained while performing work for the state’s Division of Highways (DOH), but which apparently allows a similarly-housed inmate benefits if he or she is injured while working for a private employer, does not violate the inmate’s equal protection rights, held the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
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See Crawford v. West Va. Dep’t of Corr. Work Release, 2017 W. Va. LEXIS 433 (June 8, 2017)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 64.03.
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law
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