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Nothing in this section allows the injured person to collect more than his actual medical expenses as a result of an accident from any one or any combination of all policies providing motor vehicle medical payment coverage applicable to the accident.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":226095,"text":"No policy or contract of bodily injury or property damage liability insurance that contains any representation by an insurer to pay all reasonable medical expenses incurred for bodily injury caused by accident to the insured, relative or any other person coming within the provisions of the policy, shall be issued or delivered by any insurer licensed in this Commonwealth upon any motor vehicle then principally garaged or principally used in this Commonwealth, if the policy provides for credit against the medical expense coverage for any other medical expense insurance to which the injured person may be entitled. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 759 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1968 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1986, chapter 562.<\/p>","references":[{"id":81720,"section_number":"38.2-5113","catch_line":"Financial responsibility policy form or coverage requirements","order_by":null,"url":"\/38.2-5113\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":213595,"object_type":"law","relational_id":61927,"identifier":"38.2-2211","token":"38.2\/22\/38.2-2211","url":"\/38.2-2211\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/38.2-2211\/","token":"38.2\/22\/38.2-2211","dublin_core":{"Title":"Motor vehicle liability insurer not to receive credit for other medical expense insurance","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 38.2-2211","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No policy or <span class=\"dictionary\">contract<\/span> of bodily injury or property damage liability <span class=\"dictionary\">insurance<\/span> that contains any representation by an <span class=\"dictionary\">insurer<\/span> to pay all reasonable medical expenses incurred for bodily injury caused by accident to the insured, relative or any other <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> coming within the provisions of the policy, shall be issued or delivered by any <span class=\"dictionary\">insurer<\/span> licensed in this Commonwealth upon any motor vehicle then principally garaged or principally used in this Commonwealth, if the policy provides for credit against the medical expense coverage for any other medical expense <span class=\"dictionary\">insurance<\/span> to which the injured <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span> may be entitled. 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Nothing in this\nsection allows the injured person to collect more than his actual medical\nexpenses as a result of an accident from any one or any combination of all\npolicies providing motor vehicle medical payment coverage applicable to the\naccident.\n\nHISTORY: 1968, c. 759, \u00a7 38.1-381.4; 1986, c. 562.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}