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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66976</law_id><section_number>38.2-124</section_number><catch_line>Motor vehicle</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>32.1-137.7</reference><reference>32.1-138.6</reference><reference>38.2-1102</reference><reference>38.2-1800</reference><reference>38.2-1837</reference><reference>38.2-1857.1</reference><reference>38.2-1902</reference><reference>38.2-231</reference><reference>38.2-2503</reference><reference>38.2-2800</reference><reference>38.2-2900</reference><reference>38.2-2901</reference><reference>38.2-414</reference><reference>38.2-415</reference><reference>38.2-4805.2</reference><reference>38.2-5020</reference><reference>46.2-464</reference><reference>46.2-684.1</reference><reference>52-36</reference><reference>59.1-207.5:1</reference><reference>8.01-413.01</reference><reference>8.01-66</reference><reference>8.01-66.1</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 id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Motor vehicle insurance</span>&#x201D; means insurance against: <a id="paragraph-242787" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-124/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Loss of or damage to motor vehicles, including trailers, semitrailers or other <span class="dictionary">attachments</span> designed for use in connection with motor vehicles, resulting from any cause, and against legal liability of the insured for loss or damage to the property of another resulting from the ownership, maintenance or use of motor vehicles and against loss, damage or expense incident to a claim of such liability; or <a id="paragraph-242788" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-124/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Legal liability of the insured, and liability arising under subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Uninsured motorist insurance coverage" href="/38.2-2206/">38.2-2206</a> 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> resulting from the ownership, maintenance or use of motor vehicles. <span class="dictionary">Motor vehicle insurance</span> does not include any class of insurance specified in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Workers' compensation and employers' liability" href="/38.2-119/">38.2-119</a>. <a id="paragraph-242789" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-124/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any policy of &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">motor vehicle insurance</span>&#x201D; covering legal liability of the insured under subdivision 2 of subsection A and covering liability arising under subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Uninsured motorist insurance coverage" href="/38.2-2206/">38.2-2206</a> may include appropriate provisions obligating the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> to pay to the covered injured <span class="dictionary">person</span> medical expense and loss of income benefits arising out of the death or injury of any <span class="dictionary">person</span>, as set forth in subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Provisions for payment of medical expense and loss of income benefits; assignment of certain benefits" href="/38.2-2201/">38.2-2201</a>. Any such policy of <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle insurance</span> may include appropriate provisions obligating the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> to pay weekly indemnity or other specific benefits to <span class="dictionary">persons</span> who are injured and specific death benefits to dependents, beneficiaries or personal representatives of <span class="dictionary">persons</span> who are killed, if the injury or death is caused by accident and sustained while in or upon, entering or alighting from, or through being struck by a motor vehicle while not occupying a motor vehicle. These provisions shall obligate the <span class="dictionary">insurer</span> to make payment regardless of any legal liability of the insured or any other <span class="dictionary">person</span>. <a id="paragraph-242790" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-124/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1952, c. 317, &#xA7; 38.1-21; 1956, c. 678; 1962, c. 253; 1983, c. 448; 1984, c. 311; 1986, c. 562; 1991, c. 4; 1996, c. 276.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
