Compensation and Payment Thereof

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This is Chapter 5 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Compensation and Payment Thereof.” It is part of Title 65.2 “Workers' Compensation”.

It’s comprised of the following 33 sections.

§ 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 Assistance for Needy Families participants
§ 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 participants
§ 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