                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN AWARDS ENTERED (§ 65.2-1103)

The Commission shall enter awards against the Second Injury Fund in favor of an
employer or carrier only upon a finding that: (i) the employee has prior loss or
loss of use, supported by medical evidence, of not less than twenty percent of
one or more of the members set out in § 65.2-1102; (ii) the employee has
suffered in an industrial accident an additional loss or loss of use of any one
of the members set out in § 65.2-1102 of not less than twenty percent; (iii)
the combination of both impairments has rendered the employee totally or
partially disabled as defined in § 65.2-1102; (iv) the carrier or employer has
paid the compensation due under §§ 65.2-500 and 65.2-502, and the permanent
partial disability due under § 65.2-503 and the medical treatment under §
65.2-603; and (v) the employee is entitled to further compensation for
disability which has been paid by the employer or carrier.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 599, § 65.1-141.1; 1991, c. 355.