Bill Text: VA HB1475 | 2011 | Regular Session | Chaptered

Virginia House Bill 1475 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Workers' compensation; presumption that certain injuries are work related.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-03-18 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0229) [HB1475 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2011-HB1475-Chaptered.html

CHAPTER 229 An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 65.2 a section numbered 65.2-105, relating to a presumption that certain injuries occurring at a workplace are work related. [H 1475] Approved March 18, 2011

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Chapter 1 of Title 65.2 a section numbered 65.2-105 as follows:

§ 65.2-105. Presumption that certain injuries are work related.

In any claim for compensation, where the employee is physically or mentally unable to testify as confirmed by competent medical evidence and where there is unrebutted prima facie evidence that indicates that the injury was work related, it shall be presumed, in the absence of a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, that the injury was work related.