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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60115</law_id><section_number>65.2-518</section_number><catch_line>Limitation upon total compensation</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>65.2-519</reference><reference>65.2-708</reference></referred_to_by><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><p>The total compensation payable under this title shall in no case be greater than 500 weeks nor shall it exceed the result obtained by multiplying the average weekly wage of the Commonwealth as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Compensation for total incapacity; computation of average wage; exclusion of AmeriCorps members, certain Food Stamp Employment and Training Program participants, and certain Temporary Assistance for Needy Families participants" href="/65.2-500/">65.2-500</a> for the applicable year by 500, except in cases of permanent and total incapacity as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Permanent loss" href="/65.2-503/">65.2-503</a> C and in cases of permanent disability under subdivision A 4 of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Compensation for disability from coal worker's pneumoconiosis; insurance of coal operator" href="/65.2-504/">65.2-504</a> and death from coal worker&#x2019;s pneumoconiosis under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Compensation for death from coal worker's pneumoconiosis; determining whether death was due to pneumoconiosis or any chronic occupational lung disease" href="/65.2-513/">65.2-513</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 65-68; 1952, c. 226; 1954, c. 654; 1956, c. 243; 1958, c. 568; 1960, c. 556; 1964, c. 94; 1966, c. 64; 1968, cc. 8, 660, &#xA7; 65.1-71; 1970, c. 470; 1972, c. 229; 1973, c. 542; 1974, c. 560; 1975, c. 447; 1991, c. 355; 1997, c. 511.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
