19.2-368.5:1 - Failure to perfect claim; denial - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-368.5:1. Failure to perfect claim; denial.

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 19.2-368.5, if, following the initialfiling of a claim, a claimant fails to take such further steps to support orperfect the claim as may be required by the Commission within 180 days afterwritten notice of such requirement is sent by the Commission to the claimant,the claimant shall be deemed in default. If the claimant is in default, theCommission shall notify the claimant that the claim is denied and theclaimant shall be forever barred from reasserting it; however, the Commissionmay reopen the proceeding upon a showing by claimant that the failure to dothe acts required by the Commission was beyond the control of the claimant.

(1981, c. 302; 1998, c. 484.)