If an employee receives an injury for which compensation is payable while he is still receiving or entitled to compensation for a previous injury in the same employment, he shall not at the same time be entitled to compensation for both injuries, but if he is, at the time of the second injury, receiving compensation under the provisions of § 65.2-503, payments of compensation thereunder shall be suspended during the period compensation is paid on account of the second injury, and after the termination of payments of compensation for the second injury, payments on account of the first injury shall be resumed and continued until the entire amount originally awarded has been paid. However, if, at the time of the second injury, he is receiving compensation under the provisions of § 65.2-502, then no compensation shall be payable on account of the first injury during the period he receives compensation for the second injury.
Code 1950, § 65-56; 1968, c. 660, § 65.1-59; 1991, c. 355.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 65.2 - Workers' Compensation
Chapter 5 - Compensation and Payment Thereof
§ 65.2-501. Incapacity after permanent loss
§ 65.2-506. Compensation after second injury in same employment
§ 65.2-507. Same employment; when both injuries permanent
§ 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's distributees upon his death from any other cause
§ 65.2-512. Compensation to dependents of an employee killed; burial expenses
§ 65.2-514. Special provisions for coal worker'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
§ 65.2-522. 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's rights exercised by guardian or trustee
§ 65.2-528. Time limitations on persons under disability
§ 65.2-530. Preferences and priorities
§ 65.2-531. Assignments of compensation; exemption from creditors' claims