Virginia House Bill 207 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 28 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-09 - Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Workers' compensation; recovering damages from other party. Expands the type of persons against whom an injured employee may bring a cause of action to recover damages for injury, occupational disease, or death to include statutory coemployees. The measure provides that a determination of whether a person is a stranger to the employer's work shall be made without regard to whether the person was performing work that is part of the trade, business, or occupation of the injured employee's employer. The measure affirms that an "other party" shall not include the injured employee's employer or a fellow employee.

Workers' compensation; recovering damages from other party.

Del. Michael Webert [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-09	House	Stricken from docket by Commerce and Labor by voice vote
2016-02-02	House	Subcommittee recommends striking from docket by voice vote
2016-01-19	House	Assigned C & L sub: Special Workers Comp
2015-12-28	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2015-12-28	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101724D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
65	2	309	(n/a)	See Bill Text
65	2	800	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+HB207
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+HB207+hil