Virginia Code
Va. Code Ann. § 65.2-518 (2026)
Limitation upon total compensation
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The total compensation payable under this title shall in no case be greater than 500 weeks nor shall it exceed the result obtained by multiplying the average weekly wage of the Commonwealth as defined in § 65.2-500 for the applicable year by 500, except in cases of permanent and total incapacity as defined in § 65.2-503 C and in cases of permanent disability under subdivision A 4 of § 65.2-504 and death from coal worker's pneumoconiosis under § 65.2-513.
Code 1950, § 65-68; 1952, c. 226; 1954, c. 654; 1956, c. 243; 1958, c. 568; 1960, c. 556; 1964, c. 94; 1966, c. 64; 1968, cc. 8, 660, § 65.1-71; 1970, c. 470; 1972, c. 229; 1973, c. 542; 1974, c. 560; 1975, c. 447; 1991, c. 355; 1997, c. 511.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 16
cases (4 in the last 5 years), 2001–2023 · leading case: E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Eggleston, 563 S.E.2d 685 (Va. 2002).
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Eggleston, 563 S.E.2d 685 (Va. 2002). “Du Pont also asserted that it was entitled to a weekly credit against each injury toward the 500-week maximum recovery period established by Code § 65.2-518, rather than a credit limited to the gamekeepers’ thumb injury, the crediting mechanism imposed by the Commission.”
Sturtz v. Chesapeake Corp., 568 S.E.2d 381 (Va. Ct. App. 2002). “Employer paid decedent TTD benefits for the maximum period allowed under Code § 65.2-518, 500 weeks. On January 3, 1997, by agreement of the parties, the commission entered an award in favor of the decedent for permanent total disability (PTD) benefits under Code § 65.”
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Holmes, 555 S.E.2d 419 (Va. Ct. App. 2001). “However, employer posits that application of the statute to the instant facts would confer benefits upon claim *192 ant violative of Code § 65.2-518 and inconsistent with the rationale of Moore II and, further, encourage delay in the prosecution of like claims under the Act.”
Prophet v. Bullock Corp., 718 S.E.2d 477 (Va. Ct. App. 2011). “See Code § 65.2-518. Over the years, the claimant has treated her pain with a great variety of drugs.”
Uninsured Emp.'s Fund v. Wilson, 619 S.E.2d 476 (Va. Ct. App. 2005). “See also Code § 65.2-518 (limiting total compensation to, inter alia, 500 weeks of wage loss benefits with no provision for consideration of medical benefits paid).”
Johnson v. Paul Johnson Plastering & Nat'l Sur. Corp., 561 S.E.2d 40 (Va. Ct. App. 2002). “2-500(D); Code § 65.2-518. The record also contains a letter sent by employer on January 25, 1993, to the commission and to claimant’s attorneys, “confirming] that the parties have resolved all matters in controversy.”
Kelly Roane v. Washington Metro. Area Transit Auth. (Va. Ct. App. 2020). “On January 29, 2019, the Commission sent Roane a letter indicating that “compensation benefits ended on November 18, 2018” after she received the maximum amount of 500 weeks of disability benefits allowed under Code § 65.2-518. In December 2016, Roane began seeing Dr.”
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Mary Gertrude Holmes (Va. Ct. App. 2006). “On that date, employer filed an Application for Hearing to terminate the award, claiming that it had paid claimant compensation “beyond the 500 week limitation set forth in Code § 65.2-518.”2 Employer asserted that as of October 26, 2003, claimant had received a total of 532 2/7…”
Marty D. Foust v. Lawrence Bros., Inc. & Am. Interstate Ins. Co. (Va. Ct. App. 2022). “See Code § 65.2-518 (“The total compensation payable under this title shall in no case be greater than 500 weeks .”
Janet Ramallo v. Fairfax Cnty. & Fairfax Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors (Va. Ct. App. 2020). “Ramallo subsequently received five hundred weeks of temporary total disability benefits as allowed under Code § 65.2-518. None of that compensation is challenged in this matter.”
Merck v. Vincent (Va. 2021). “” Code § 65.2-518. As noted above, Code § 65.”
Kamco Bldg. Supply Corp. & PA Lumbermen's Mut. Ins. Co. v. Eric Heard (Va. Ct. App. 2018). “On September 22, 2015, Heard filed a request for hearing seeking permanent total disability benefits after receiving the maximum 500 weeks of indemnity benefits allowed under Code § 65.2-518, the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act (the “Act”).”
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