69 S.E.2d 441, 442 (1952)). The plain and ordinary meaning of the word “disinterested,” as confirmed by any standard English dictionary, is “lacking or revealing lack of interest,” “not influenced by regard to personal advantage,” “free from selfish motive,” or “not biased or prejudiced.” See Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 650 (1993). Virginia’s meager case law is in accord with this plain meaning. The principal Virginia case addressing the issue of disinterested appraisers is Hurst v. Hope, 152 Va. 405, 147 S.E. 222, 223 (1929). In that case, the Supreme Court of Virginia concluded that employees on the payroll of either an insurer or the insured are not qualified to serve as appraisers because they do not satisfy the disinterestedness requirement of the statute. See id. (<HOLDING>) (quoting Connecticut, etc. Insurance Co. v.
recognizing that pursuant to the business judgment rule the decisions of business professionals on the board of directors should be presumed valid holding that a judgment is final only when the parties have exhausted their respective rights to appeal or if no party to the action filed a timely appeal holding that when the language of a statute is clear courts should not substitute their judgment for that of congress and should enforce the statute according to its terms recognizing that the persons selected to make appraisal decisions should be free from the control and direction of the respective parties  and should act independently and upon their own judgment recognizing that the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care custody and control of their children