Code of Virginia - Title 65.2 Workers' Compensation - Chapter 5 Compensation And Payment Thereof

65.2-500 Compensation for total incapacity; computation of average wage; exclusion of AmeriCorps members, ce...
A. Except as provided in subsections E, F and G, when the incapacity for work resulting from the injury is total, the employer shall pay, ...

65.2-501 Incapacity after permanent loss
After compensation has been paid as provided in § 65.2-503, the employee may, within one year from the date compensation was last due under this ...

65.2-502 Compensation for partial incapacity; exclusion of AmeriCorps members, certain Food Stamp Employmen...
A. Except as otherwise provided in § 65.2-503 or 65.2-510, or as provided in subsections B, C and D, when the incapacity for work resulting ...

65.2-503 Permanent loss
A. Compensation for permanent partial and permanent total loss and disfigurement shall be awarded as provided in this section. B. The following losses shall be ...

65.2-504 Compensation for disability from coal worker's pneumoconiosis; insurance of coal operator
A. An employee eligible for an award for coal worker's pneumoconiosis benefits shall be compensated according to the following schedule: 1. For first stage coal ...

65.2-505 Injuries in different employments; injury to employee with disability; subsequent permanent injury ...
A. Except for hearing or vision loss that has not reached a compensable level of disability, if an employee has a permanent disability or has ...

65.2-506 Compensation after second injury in same employment
If an employee receives an injury for which compensation is payable while he is still receiving or entitled to compensation for a previous injury in ...

65.2-507 Same employment; when both injuries permanent
If an employee receives a permanent injury as specified in § 65.2-503, after having sustained another permanent injury in the same employment, he shall be ...

65.2-508 Foreign injuries
A. When an accident happens while the employee is employed elsewhere than in this Commonwealth which would entitle him or his dependents to compensation if ...

65.2-509 Commencement of compensation
No compensation shall be allowed for the first seven calendar days of incapacity resulting from an injury except the benefits provided for in § 65.2-603; ...

65.2-510 Refusal of employment; compensation for partial incapacity
A. If an injured employee refuses employment procured for him suitable to his capacity, he shall only be entitled to the benefits provided for in ...

65.2-510.1 Employee imprisonment; suspension of benefits
A. Whenever an employee is imprisoned in a jail, state correctional facility, or any other place of incarceration and (i) the imprisonment resulted from the ...

65.2-511 Compensation to employee's distributees upon his death from any other cause
When an employee receives or is entitled to compensation under this title for an injury covered by § 65.2-503 and dies from a cause other ...

65.2-512 Compensation to dependents of an employee killed; burial expenses
A. Except as provided in subsections F, G and H, if death results from the accident within nine years, the employer shall pay, or cause ...

65.2-513 Compensation for death from coal worker's pneumoconiosis; determining whether death was due to pneu...
A. If death results from coal worker's pneumoconiosis or if the employee was totally disabled by coal worker's pneumoconiosis at the time of his death ...

65.2-514 Special provisions for coal worker's pneumoconiosis claims for total disability or death
In the case of claims for death or total disability under subdivision A 4 of § 65.2-504 or § 65.2-513, the following matters shall be ...

65.2-515 Persons conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent
A. The following persons shall be conclusively presumed to be dependents wholly dependent for support upon the deceased employee: 1. A wife upon a husband ...

65.2-516 Other cases of dependency
In all other cases questions of dependency in whole or in part shall be determined in accordance with the facts as the facts are at ...

65.2-517 Termination of dependency
For the purpose of this title, the dependence of a widow or widower of a deceased employee shall terminate with death or remarriage, and the ...

65.2-518 Limitation upon total compensation
The total compensation payable under this title shall in no case be greater than 500 weeks nor shall it exceed the result obtained by multiplying ...

65.2-519 When limitations inapplicable to injuries arising out of pneumoconiosis
The limitations as to the maximum periods and maximum total amounts listed in §§ 65.2-500, 65.2-512, and 65.2-518 shall not apply to injuries arising out ...

65.2-520 Voluntary payment by employer
Any payments made by the employer to the injured employee during the period of his disability, or to his dependents, which by the terms of ...

65.2-521 Time of payment
The Commission, upon application of either party, may, in its discretion, having regard to the welfare of the employee and the convenience of the employer, ...

65.2-522 Lump sum payments, generally
When the parties agree and the Commission deems it to be to the best interests of the employee or his dependents, or when it will ...

65.2-523 Lump sum payments to trustees
Whenever the Commission deems it expedient, any lump sum subject to the provisions of § 65.2-522 shall be paid by the employer to some suitable ...

65.2-524 Failure to pay compensation within two weeks after it becomes due
If any payment is not paid within two weeks after it becomes due, there shall be added to such unpaid compensation an amount equal to ...

65.2-525 Who may receive payment and receipt therefor
A. Whenever payment of compensation is made to a surviving spouse or parent for his use, or for his use and the use of a ...

65.2-526 Payment to junior dependents in good faith
Payment of death benefits by an employer in good faith to a dependent subsequent in right to another or other dependents shall protect and discharge ...

65.2-527 When employee's rights exercised by guardian or trustee
If an injured employee is incapacitated or is under eighteen years of age at the time when any right or privilege accrues to him under ...

65.2-528 Time limitations on persons under disability
No limitation of time provided in this title for the giving of notice or making claim under this title shall run against any person who ...

65.2-529 Joint service
Whenever any employee for whose injury or death compensation is payable under this title shall at the time of the injury be in the joint ...

65.2-530 Preferences and priorities
All rights of compensation granted by this title shall have the same preference or priority for the whole thereof against the assets of the employer ...

65.2-531 Assignments of compensation; exemption from creditors' claims
A. No claim for compensation under this title shall be assignable. All compensation and claims therefor shall be exempt from all claims of creditors, even ...