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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83683</law_id><section_number>38.2-117</section_number><catch_line>Personal injury liability</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>19.2-13</reference><reference>32.1-137.7</reference><reference>32.1-138.6</reference><reference>38.2-118</reference><reference>38.2-1800</reference><reference>38.2-231</reference><reference>38.2-235</reference><reference>38.2-2503</reference><reference>38.2-2800</reference><reference>38.2-2900</reference><reference>38.2-2901</reference><reference>38.2-5020</reference><reference>46.2-2902</reference><reference>46.2-649.1</reference><reference>46.2-684.1</reference><reference>5.1-88.6</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Insurance Classified and Defined</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>&#x201C;Personal injury liability <span class="dictionary">insurance</span>&#x201D; means <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> against legal liability of the insured, and against loss, damage or expense incident to a claim of such liability, arising out of the death or injury of any <span class="dictionary">person</span>, or arising out of injury to the economic interests of any <span class="dictionary">person</span> as the result of <span class="dictionary">negligence</span> in rendering expert, fiduciary or professional service, but not including any class of <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> specified in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Workers' compensation and employers' liability" href="/38.2-119/">38.2-119</a>.
		Any policy of personal injury liability <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> may include appropriate provisions obligating the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> to pay medical, hospital, surgical, and funeral expenses arising out of the death or injury of any <span class="dictionary">person</span>, regardless of any legal liability of the insured.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 38-239; 1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-15; 1986, c. 562.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
