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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80866</law_id><section_number>65.2-508</section_number><catch_line>Foreign injuries</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="65.2">Workers' Compensation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Compensation and Payment Thereof</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> When an accident happens while the employee is employed elsewhere than in this Commonwealth which would entitle him or his dependents to compensation if it had happened in this Commonwealth, the employee or his dependents shall be entitled to compensation, if: <a id="paragraph-289865" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/65.2-508/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The <span class="dictionary">contract</span> of employment was made in this Commonwealth; and <a id="paragraph-289866" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/65.2-508/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The <span class="dictionary">employer</span>&#x2019;s place of business is in this Commonwealth;
				provided the <span class="dictionary">contract</span> of employment was not expressly for service exclusively outside of the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-289867" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/65.2-508/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> However, if an employee shall receive compensation or <span class="dictionary">damages</span> under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of any other state, nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to permit a total compensation for the same <span class="dictionary">injury</span> greater than is provided for in this title. <a id="paragraph-289868" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/65.2-508/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 65-58; 1968, c. 660, &#xA7; 65.1-61; 1976, c. 151; 1991, c. 355.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
