Chapter 5 Compensation and Payment Thereof

This chapter is comprised of the following sections:
  • §65.2-500 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
  • §65.2-501 Incapacity after permanent loss
  • §65.2-502 Compensation for partial incapacity; exclusion of AmeriCorps members, certain Food Stamp Employment and Training Program participants, and certain Temporary Assistance for Needy Families participants
  • §65.2-503 Permanent loss
  • §65.2-504 Compensation for disability from coal worker’s pneumoconiosis; insurance of coal operator
  • §65.2-505 Injuries in different employments; injury to employee with disability; subsequent permanent injury by accident in service to employer
  • §65.2-506 Compensation after second injury in same employment
  • §65.2-507 Same employment; when both injuries permanent
  • §65.2-508 Foreign injuries
  • §65.2-509 Commencement of compensation
  • §65.2-510 Refusal of employment; compensation for partial incapacity
  • §65.2-510.1 Employee imprisonment; suspension of benefits
  • §65.2-511 Compensation to employee’s distributees upon his death from any other cause
  • §65.2-512 Compensation to dependents of an employee killed; burial expenses
  • §65.2-513 Compensation for death from coal worker’s pneumoconiosis; determining whether death was due to pneumoconiosis or any chronic occupational lung disease
  • §65.2-514 Special provisions for coal worker’s pneumoconiosis claims for total disability or death
  • §65.2-515 Persons conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent
  • §65.2-516 Other cases of dependency
  • §65.2-517 Termination of dependency
  • §65.2-518 Limitation upon total compensation
  • §65.2-519 When limitations inapplicable to injuries arising out of pneumoconiosis
  • §65.2-520 Voluntary payment by employer
  • §65.2-521 Time of payment
  • §65.2-522 Lump sum payments, generally
  • §65.2-523 Lump sum payments to trustees
  • §65.2-524 Failure to pay compensation within two weeks after it becomes due
  • §65.2-525 Who may receive payment and receipt therefor
  • §65.2-526 Payment to junior dependents in good faith
  • §65.2-527 When employee’s rights exercised by guardian or trustee
  • §65.2-528 Time limitations on persons under disability
  • §65.2-529 Joint service
  • §65.2-530 Preferences and priorities
  • §65.2-531 Assignments of compensation; exemption from creditors’ claims