65.2-505 - Injuries in different employments; injury to employee with disability; subsequent permanent injury by accident in service to employer. - Virginia Statutes

§ 65.2-505. Injuries in different employments; injury to employee withdisability; subsequent permanent injury by accident in service to employer.

A. Except for hearing or vision loss that has not reached a compensable levelof disability, if an employee has a permanent disability or has sustained apermanent injury in service in the armed forces of the United States or inanother employment other than that in which he receives a subsequentpermanent injury by accident, such as specified in § 65.2-503, he shall beentitled to compensation only for the degree of incapacity which would haveresulted from the later accident if the earlier disability or injury had notexisted.

B. Except for hearing or vision loss that has not reached a compensable levelof disability, if an employee has a permanent disability or has sustained apermanent injury in service to his employer and receives a subsequentpermanent injury by accident, such as specified in § 65.2-503, he shall beentitled to compensation only for the degree of incapacity which would haveresulted from the later accident if the earlier disability or injury had notexisted.

(Code 1950, § 65-55; 1968, c. 660, § 65.1-58; 1991, c. 355; 1996, c. 448.)