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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62777</law_id><section_number>38.2-5006</section_number><catch_line>Hearing; parties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-5003</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="50">Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Immediately after the <span class="dictionary">Program</span>&#x2019;s response is filed pursuant to subsection D of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Filing of claims; review by Board of Medicine; review by Department of Health; filing of responses; medical records" href="/38.2-5004/">38.2-5004</a>, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall set the date for a <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>, which shall be held no sooner than 15 days and no later than 90 days after the filing of the <span class="dictionary">Program</span>&#x2019;s response, and shall notify the parties to the <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> of the time and place of such <span class="dictionary">hearing</span>. The <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> shall be held in the city or county where the <span class="dictionary">birth-related neurological injury</span> occurred, or in a contiguous city or county, unless otherwise agreed to by the parties and authorized by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. <a id="paragraph-228843" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-5006/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The parties to the <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> required under this section shall include the <span class="dictionary">claimant</span> and the <span class="dictionary">Program</span>. <a id="paragraph-228844" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-5006/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1987, c. 540; 1989, c. 523; 2005, cc. 50, 52.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
