CODE OF VIRGINIA

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY (§ 38.2-119)

“Workers’ compensation and employers’ liability
insurance” means insurance against the legal liability of any employer for
the death or disablement of, or injury to, his or its employee whether imposed
by common law or by statute, or assumed by contract.Employers’ liability
insurance may include appropriate provisions obligating the insurer to pay
medical, chiropractic, hospital, surgical, and funeral expenses arising out of
the death or injury of an employee, regardless of any legal liability of the
insured.

HISTORY: 1952, c. 317, § 38.1-17; 1986, c. 562.