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Does Workers' Comp Cover a Poisonous Spider Bite?

Is a poisonous spider bite suffered at work compensable under workers' compensation?

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Last week, the Court of Appeals of Virginia decided whether a claimant was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries resulting from a spider bite that occurred while she was working. The case is James Madison Univ. v. Housden, No. 1252-19-3, 2020 Va. App. LEXIS 63 (Ct. App. Mar 10, 2020).

At the time she suffered her injury, in February 2018, Irma Housden had been working at James Madison University in Virginia as an administrative assistant for thirty-seven years. Housden worked on the third floor, in an office space that had formerly been a high school.  The boiler room of the building Housden worked in had been under construction since December 2017.

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