Title 65.2 - WORKERS' COMPENSATION.
- Chapter 1 - Definitions and General Provisions (65.2-100 thru 65.2-104)
- 65.2-100 - Short title.
- 65.2-101 - Definitions.
- 65.2-102 - Coverage of firefighters and law-enforcement officers in off-duty capacity.
- 65.2-103 - Coverage of members of the Virginia National Guard, Virginia State Defense Force and naval militia during response to orders.
- 65.2-104 - Coverage of first responders in off-duty capacity during state of emergency.
- Chapter 2 - Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission (65.2-200 thru 65.2-204)
- 65.2-200 - Industrial Commission continued as the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission; number, election and terms of members; vacancies; Chairman; members to devote entire time to office.
- 65.2-201 - General duties and powers of the Commission.
- 65.2-202 - Subpoena powers of the Commission; production of records and papers.
- 65.2-203 - Powers and duties of deputy commissioners and bailiffs.
- 65.2-204 - Administrative provisions: offices, meetings, travel, salary and expenses.
- Chapter 3 - Application and Effect of Title (65.2-300 thru 65.2-313)
- 65.2-300 - Presumption of acceptance of provisions of title; exemptions; notice and rejection.
- 65.2-301 - Victims of sexual assault.
- 65.2-302 - Statutory employer.
- 65.2-303 - Recovery from subcontractor; proceedings against owner or contractor.
- 65.2-304 - Indemnity of principal from subcontractor.
- 65.2-305 - Voluntary subjection to provisions of title; effect of taking out insurance or qualifying as self-insurer.
- 65.2-306 - When compensation not allowed for injury or death; burden of proof.
- 65.2-307 - Employee's rights under Act exclude all others.
- 65.2-308 - Discharge of employee for exercising rights prohibited; civil action; relief.
- 65.2-309 - Lien against settlement proceeds or verdict in third party suit; subrogation of employer to employee's rights against third parties; evidence; recovery; compromise.
- 65.2-309.1 - Creation of lien and subrogation of employer to employee's rights to recover uninsured or underinsured motorist benefits pursuant to insurance coverage carried by and at the expense o
- 65.2-310 - Protection of employer when employee sues third party.
- 65.2-311 - Expenses and attorney's fees in action under § 65.2-309 or §
- 65.2-312 - False statements, representations, etc., in connection with an award; penalties.
- 65.2-313 - Method of determining employer's offset in event of recovery under § 65.2-309 or § 65.2-310.
- Chapter 4 - Occupational Diseases (65.2-400 thru 65.2-407)
- 65.2-400 - Occupational disease" defined.
- 65.2-401 - Ordinary disease of life" coverage.
- 65.2-402 - Presumption as to death or disability from respiratory disease, hypertension or heart disease, cancer.
- 65.2-402.1 - Presumption as to death or disability from infectious disease.
- 65.2-403 - Provisions in respect to injury by accident, etc., applicable to occupational disease.
- 65.2-404 - What employer and carrier liability.
- 65.2-405 - Notice to be given.
- 65.2-406 - Limitation upon claim; diseases covered by limitation.
- 65.2-407 - Waiver.
- Chapter 5 - Compensation and Payment Thereof (65.2-500 thru 65.2-531)
- 65.2-500 - Compensation for total incapacity; computation of average wage; exclusion of AmeriCorps members, certain Food Stamp Employment and Training Program participants, and certain Temporary Assis
- 65.2-501 - Incapacity after permanent loss.
- 65.2-502 - Compensation for partial incapacity; exclusion of AmeriCorps members, certain Food Stamp Employment and Training Program participants, and certain Temporary Assistance for Needy Families pa
- 65.2-503 - Permanent loss.
- 65.2-504 - Compensation for disability from coal worker's pneumoconiosis; insurance of coal operator.
- 65.2-505 - Injuries in different employments; injury to employee with disability; subsequent permanent injury by accident in service to employer.
- 65.2-506 - Compensation after second injury in same employment.
- 65.2-507 - Same employment; when both injuries permanent.
- 65.2-508 - Foreign injuries.
- 65.2-509 - Commencement of compensation.
- 65.2-510 - Refusal of employment; compensation for partial incapacity.
- 65.2-510.1 - Employee imprisonment; suspension of benefits.
- 65.2-511 - Compensation to employee's distributees upon his death from any other cause.
- 65.2-512 - Compensation to dependents of an employee killed; burial expenses.
- 65.2-513 - Compensation for death from coal worker's pneumoconiosis; determining whether death was due to pneumoconiosis or any chronic occupational lung disease.
- 65.2-514 - Special provisions for coal worker's pneumoconiosis claims for total disability or death.
- 65.2-515 - Persons conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent.
- 65.2-516 - Other cases of dependency.
- 65.2-517 - Termination of dependency.
- 65.2-518 - Limitation upon total compensation.
- 65.2-519 - When limitations inapplicable to injuries arising out of pneumoconiosis.
- 65.2-520 - Voluntary payment by employer.
- 65.2-521 - Time of payment.
- 65.2-522 - Lump sum payments, generally.
- 65.2-523 - Lump sum payments to trustees.
- 65.2-524 - Failure to pay compensation within two weeks after it becomes due.
- 65.2-525 - Who may receive payment and receipt therefor.
- 65.2-526 - Payment to junior dependents in good faith.
- 65.2-527 - When employee's rights exercised by guardian or trustee.
- 65.2-528 - Time limitations on persons under disability.
- 65.2-529 - Joint service.
- 65.2-530 - Preferences and priorities.
- 65.2-531 - Assignments of compensation; exemption from creditors' claims.
- Chapter 6 - Notice of Accident; Filing Claims; Medical Attention and Examination (65.2-600 thru 65.2-607)
- 65.2-600 - Notice of accident.
- 65.2-601 - Time for filing claim.
- 65.2-601.1 - Effect of filing claim; stay of debt collection activities by health care providers.
- 65.2-602 - Tolling of statute of limitations.
- 65.2-603 - Duty to furnish medical attention, etc., and vocational rehabilitation; effect of refusal of employee to accept.
- 65.2-603.1 - Use of therapeutically equivalent drug products required.
- 65.2-604 - Furnishing copy of medical report.
- 65.2-605 - Liability of employer for medical services ordered by Commission; malpractice.
- 65.2-606 - Physicians for medical examination.
- 65.2-607 - Medical examination; physician-patient privilege inapplicable; autopsy.
- Chapter 7 - Procedure in Connection With Awards (65.2-700 thru 65.2-715)
- 65.2-700 - Jurisdiction of Commission.
- 65.2-701 - Agreement as to compensation; penalty.
- 65.2-702 - Disagreement on compensation; venue.
- 65.2-703 - Interrogatories and depositions.
- 65.2-704 - Hearing; award or opinion by Commission.
- 65.2-705 - Review of award; rehearing.
- 65.2-706 - Conclusiveness of award; appeal.
- 65.2-706.1 - Estoppel effect of a Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission determination of employment status.
- 65.2-707 - Interest on appealed award.
- 65.2-708 - Review of award on change in condition.
- 65.2-709 - Cost of living supplements for total incapacity and dependents of deceased.
- 65.2-710 - Enforcement, etc., of orders and awards.
- 65.2-711 - Reporting of address change by employee; suspension of payment of benefits.
- 65.2-712 - Reporting incarcerations, change in earnings, remarriage, change in student status; recovery of payments procured by fraud, misrepresentation, or unreported change in condition.
- 65.2-713 - Costs.
- 65.2-714 - Fees of attorneys and physicians and hospital charges.
- 65.2-715 - Providing written information.
- Chapter 8 - Insurance and Self-Insurance (65.2-800 thru 65.2-824)
- 65.2-800 - Duty to insure payment of compensation; effect of insurance.
- 65.2-801 - Insurance or proof of financial ability to pay required.
- 65.2-802 - Requirements for licensure as group self-insurance association; annual assessment.
- 65.2-803 - Administrator and service company affiliation prohibited; exception.
- 65.2-803.1 - Requirements for registration as professional employer organization; annual assessment.
- 65.2-804 - Evidence of compliance with title; notices of cancellation of insurance.
- 65.2-805 - Civil penalty for violation of §§ 65.2-800, 65.2-803.1, and
- 65.2-806 - Criminal penalties.
- 65.2-807 - Cost of insurance may not be deducted from wages.
- 65.2-808 - Self-insurance certificate.
- 65.2-809 - Constructive notice to, jurisdiction of, and awards, etc., binding upon insurer.
- 65.2-810 - How formal notice may be given.
- 65.2-811 - Liability of insurer.
- 65.2-812 - Subrogation of insurance carrier to employer's rights; compromise.
- 65.2-813 - Insurance deemed subject to title; approval of forms.
- 65.2-813.1 - Insurers offering policies with deductibles.
- 65.2-813.2 - Premium discounts; drug-free workplace programs.
- 65.2-814 - Insurer to furnish written evidence of coverage on request.
- 65.2-815 - Group self-insurance association required to furnish written evidence of membership.
- 65.2-816 - Title not applicable to boiler, etc., insurance.
- 65.2-817 - Rates; cooperation between State Corporation Commission and Workers' Compensation Commission.
- 65.2-818 - Minimum standards of service for insurers.
- 65.2-819 - Penalty for violation of certain provisions.
- 65.2-820 - Application to State Corporation Commission for assignment of risk; insurer assigned risk to issue policy.
- 65.2-821 - State Corporation Commission to make rules and regulations, and establish rating schedules and rates.
- 65.2-822 - Action by State Corporation Commission upon application.
- 65.2-823 - Information filed with State Corporation Commission by insurance carrier to be confidential; exception.
- 65.2-824 - Disclosures not required of State Corporation Commission; liability for acts or omissions.
- Chapter 9 - Reports and Records (65.2-900 thru 65.2-903)
- Chapter 10 - Administrative Fund and Tax Therefor (65.2-1000 thru 65.2-1008)
- 65.2-1000 - Tax for administrative fund.
- 65.2-1001 - Returns.
- 65.2-1002 - Payment of tax.
- 65.2-1003 - Failure to file return.
- 65.2-1004 - Withdrawal from business or failure to pay tax.
- 65.2-1005 - Tax exclusive of other taxes.
- 65.2-1006 - Payroll reports of self-insurers and tax thereon; withholding or providing false or misleading information.
- 65.2-1007 - Disposition of fund.
- 65.2-1008 - When fund in excess of requirement.
- Chapter 11 - Second Injury Fund (65.2-1100 thru 65.2-1106)
- 65.2-1100 - Fund created.
- 65.2-1101 - Funding.
- 65.2-1102 - Disability defined.
- 65.2-1103 - When awards entered.
- 65.2-1104 - Award for compensation, medical treatment and vocational rehabilitation.
- 65.2-1105 - Payments by fraud, mistake or improper processing of claim; recovery.
- 65.2-1106 - Claims and hearings.
- Chapter 12 - Uninsured Employer's Fund (65.2-1200 thru 65.2-1206)
- 65.2-1200 - Fund created.
- 65.2-1201 - (Effective until July 1, 2012) Financing; tax.
- 65.2-1202 - Defense of claims against fund by Attorney General.
- 65.2-1203 - Awards.
- 65.2-1204 - Subrogation and recoupment.
- 65.2-1205 - Notification of change in earnings; change in award.
- 65.2-1206 - Payments procured by fraud, mistake or unreported change in condition; recovery.
- Chapter 13 - Peer Review of Medical Costs (65.2-1300 thru 65.2-1310)
- 65.2-1300 - Definitions.
- 65.2-1301 - Statewide Coordinating Committee; membership; terms.
- 65.2-1302 - Compensation and expenses of members of Statewide Coordinating Committee and regional peer review committees.
- 65.2-1303 - Regional peer review committees.
- 65.2-1304 - Utilization review program.
- 65.2-1305 - Peer review program.
- 65.2-1306 - Corrective action.
- 65.2-1307 - Immunity of Committee members from liability.
- 65.2-1308 - Privileged communications.
- 65.2-1309 - Employment of Committee staff; contracts for services; rules and regulations.
- 65.2-1310 - Funding.