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Title 65.2 - Workers' Compensation
Chapter 1 - Definitions and General Provisions
- 65.2-100 - Short title
- 65.2-101 - Definitions
- 65.2-102 - Coverage of firefighters and law-enforcement officers in off-duty capacity
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Chapter 2 - Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission
- 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
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Chapter 3 - Application and Effect of Title
- 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 - Subrogation of employer to employee's rights against third parties; evidence; recovery; compromise
- 65.2-309.1 - Subrogation of employer to employee's rights to recover uninsured or underinsured motorist benefits pursuant to insurance coverage carried by and at the expense of employer
- 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 §65.2-310
- 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
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Chapter 4 - Occupational Diseases
- 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
- 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
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Chapter 5 - Compensation and Payment Thereof
- 65.2-500 - Compensation for total incapacity; computation of average wage
- 65.2-501 - Incapacity after permanent loss
- 65.2-502 - Compensation for partial incapacity
- 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
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Chapter 6 - Notice of Accident; Filing Claims; Medical Attention and Examination
- 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
- 65.2-604 - 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
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Chapter 7 - Procedure in Connection With Awards
- 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
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Chapter 8 - Insurance and Self-Insurance
- 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
- 65.2-804 - Evidence of compliance with title; notices of cancellation of insurance
- 65.2-805 - Civil penalty for violation of §65.2-804
- 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
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Chapter 9 - Reports and Records
- 65.2-900 - Records and reports of accidents
- 65.2-901 - Report of number of employees, hours of work, etc
- 65.2-902 - Failure to make required reports; civil penalty
- 65.2-903 - Records not public
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Chapter 10 - Administrative Fund and Tax Therefor
- 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
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Chapter 11 - Second Injury Fund
- 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
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Chapter 12 - Uninsured Employer's Fund
- 65.2-1200 - Fund created
- 65.2-1201 - (Effective until January 1, 2000) Financing; tax
- 65.2-1201 - (Effective January 1, 2000) 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
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Chapter 13 - Peer Review of Medical Costs
- 65.2-1300 - Definitions
- 65.2-1301 - Statewide Coordinating Committee
- 65.2-1302 - Compensation and expenses of members of Statewide Coordinating Committee and regional peer review committees; expenses of Committee
- 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
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Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act
- 38.2-5000 - Short title
- 38.2-5001 - Definitions
- 38.2-5002 - Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program; exclusive remedy; exception
- 38.2-5003 - Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission authorized to hear and determine claims
- 38.2-5004 - Filing of claims; review by Board of Medicine; review by Department of Health; filing of responses
- 38.2-5005 - Tolling of statute of limitations
- 38.2-5006 - Hearing; parties
- 38.2-5007 - Interrogatories and depositions
- 38.2-5008 - Determination of claims; presumption; finding of Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission binding on participants; medical advisory panel
- 38.2-5009 - Commission awards for birth-related neurological injuries; notice of award
- 38.2-5010 - Rehearing on Commission determination or award
- 38.2-5011 - Conclusiveness of determination or award; appeal
- 38.2-5012 - Enforcement, etc., of orders and awards
- 38.2-5013 - Limitation on claims
- 38.2-5014 - Scope
- 38.2-5015 - Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Fund
- 38.2-5016 - Board of directors; appointment; vacancies; term
- 38.2-5017 - Plan of operation
- 38.2-5018 - Assessments to be held in restricted cash account
- 38.2-5019 - Repealed by Acts 1989, c. 523.
- 38.2-5020 - Assessments
- 38.2-5020.1 - Credits against malpractice insurance premiums
- 38.2-5021 - Actuarial investigation, valuations, gain/loss analysis; notice if assessments prove insufficient
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Chapter 21.1 - Compensating Victims of Crime
- 19.2-368.1 - Findings; legislative intent
- 19.2-368.2 - Definitions
- 19.2-368.3 - Powers and duties of Commission
- 19.2-368.3:1 - Crime victims' ombudsman
- 19.2-368.4 - Persons eligible for awards
- 19.2-368.5 - Filing of claims; deferral of proceedings
- 19.2-368.5:1 - Failure to perfect claim; denial
- 19.2-368.6 - Assignment of claims; investigation; hearing; confidentiality of records; decisions
- 19.2-368.7 - Review by Commission
- 19.2-368.8 - Reinvestigation of decision; reconsideration of award; judicial review
- 19.2-368.9 - Emergency awards
- 19.2-368.10 - When awards to be made
- 19.2-368.11 - Repealed by Acts 1986, c. 457.
- 19.2-368.11:1 - Amount of award
- 19.2-368.12 - Awards not subject to execution or attachment; apportionment; reductions
- 19.2-368.13 - Repealed by Acts 1984, c. 619.
- 19.2-368.14 - Public record; exception
- 19.2-368.15 - Subrogation of Commonwealth to claimant's right of action; disposition of funds collected
- 19.2-368.16 - Claims to be made under oath
- 19.2-368.17 - Public information program
- 19.2-368.18 - Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund
Chapter 35-- Professional Counseling and Marriage and Family TherapyArticle 1 - General Provisions
54.1-3500 - Definitions 54.1-3501 - Exemption from requirements of licensure 54.1-3502 - Administration or prescription of drugs not permitted 54.1-3503 - Board of Licensed Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists and Substance Abuse Treatment Professionals 54.1-3504 - Nominations 54.1-3505 - Specific powers and duties of the Board 54.1-3506 - License required - Article 1.1 - Licensed Substance Abuse Treatment Practitioners 54.1-3507 - Scope of practice of and qualifications for licensed substance abuse treatment practitioners 54.1-3508 - Licensure of certain persons possessing substantially equivalent qualifications, education or experience
Article 2 - Advisory Board on Rehabilitation Providers
- 54.1-3510 - Definitions 54.1-3511 - Advisory Board on Rehabilitation Providers 54.1-3512 - Powers and duties of Advisory Board 54.1-3513 - Restriction of practice; use of titles 54.1-3514 - Certification of existing providers 54.1-3515 - Certification renewal of individuals who became certified under the provisions of § 54.1-3514
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