65.2-506 - Compensation after second injury in same employment. - Virginia Statutes

§ 65.2-506. Compensation after second injury in same employment.

If an employee receives an injury for which compensation is payable while heis still receiving or entitled to compensation for a previous injury in thesame employment, he shall not at the same time be entitled to compensationfor both injuries, but if he is, at the time of the second injury, receivingcompensation under the provisions of § 65.2-503, payments of compensationthereunder shall be suspended during the period compensation is paid onaccount of the second injury, and after the termination of payments ofcompensation for the second injury, payments on account of the first injuryshall be resumed and continued until the entire amount originally awarded hasbeen paid. However, if, at the time of the second injury, he is receivingcompensation under the provisions of § 65.2-502, then no compensation shallbe payable on account of the first injury during the period he receivescompensation for the second injury.

(Code 1950, § 65-56; 1968, c. 660, § 65.1-59; 1991, c. 355.)