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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80066</law_id><section_number>65.2-820</section_number><catch_line>Application to State Corporation Commission for assignment of risk; insurer assigned risk to issue policy</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-2000.1</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="8">Insurance and Self-Insurance</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every <span class="dictionary">employer</span> subject to the provisions of this chapter who has been unable to obtain a workers&#x2019; compensation insurance policy shall have the right to apply to the State Corporation <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> to have his risk assigned to an insurance carrier licensed to write and writing workers&#x2019; compensation insurance in this Commonwealth. The insurance carrier, whether stock, mutual, reciprocal or interinsurer or other type or form of organization, to whom any such risk is assigned shall <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a policy of workers&#x2019; compensation insurance which will enable such <span class="dictionary">employer</span> to meet the requirements of this chapter.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 65-114.1; 1956, c. 358; 1968, c. 660, &#xA7; 65.1-119; 1991, c. 355.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
