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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s pneumoconiosis; determining whether death was due to pneumoconiosis or any chronic occupational lung disease
§65.2-514 Special provisions for coal worker&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217; claims
