                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

&#8220;ORDINARY DISEASE OF LIFE&#8221; COVERAGE (§ 65.2-401)

An ordinary disease of life to which the general public is exposed outside of
the employment may be treated as an occupational disease for purposes of this
title if each of the following elements is established by clear and convincing
evidence, (not a mere probability):

1. That the disease exists and arose out of and in the course of employment as
provided in &#xA7; 65.2-400 with respect to occupational diseases and did not
result from causes outside of the employment, and

2. That one of the following exists:
			a. It follows as an incident of occupational disease as defined in this
title; or
			b. It is an infectious or contagious disease contracted in the course of
one&#8217;s employment in a hospital or sanitarium or laboratory or nursing home
as defined in &#xA7; 32.1-123, or while otherwise engaged in the direct delivery
of health care, or in the course of employment as emergency rescue personnel and
those volunteer emergency rescue personnel referred to in &#xA7; 65.2-101; or
			c. It is characteristic of the employment and was caused by conditions
peculiar to such employment.

HISTORY: 1986, c. 378, § 65.1-46.1; 1989, c. 502; 1991, c. 355; 1997, cc. 15,
405.