is a question of first impression in Virginia. We were not faced with this issue in Holcombe, in which we considered only whether the commission erred in allowing the deduction of depreciation expenses from the gross income of a sole proprietor. “ ‘The general rule is that profits derived from a business are not to be considered as earnings and cannot be accepted as a measure of loss of earning power unless they are almost entirely the direct result of [the claimant’s] personal management and endeavor.’ ” The Washington Post v. District of Columbia Dep’t of Employment Servs., 675 A.2d 37, 42 (D.C.1996) (quoting Clingan v. Fairchance Lumber Co., 166 Pa.Super. 331, 71 A.2d 839, 840 (1950)); cf. Twenty-First Century Concrete, Inc. v. Giacchina, 20 Va.App. 326, 457 S.E.2d 379 (1995) (<HOLDING>). “[T]he conduct of a sole proprietorship [may
holding that claimant was not required to show monetary loss to claimants corporations in order to receive wage loss benefits where claimant was unable to perform his duties and had to reassign other employees to complete his duties even though he had authority to draw wages from the corporation due to his ownership interest holding that even though some of employees duties appeared to satisfy the directly related element the element was not satisfied where those duties were not part of his primary duty holding that when an employee had his duties changed but had no interest created or protected by the constitution or state law in those duties then no liberty interest claim was stated holding that before terminating benefits the plan should have obtained a vocational experts opinion to determine if claimant is presently capable in light of his physical impairment to perform any occupation  and observing that claimant met his burden when he proved his disability initially holding that any right claimant might have had to receive certain information prior to statutes amendment was not vested because his lawsuit had not been resolved