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Under Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Act, employers must provide workers’ comp to their legally hired employees, but they are not required to cover contractors. Independent contractors and subcontractors usually have to shoulder their own workers’ comp insurance.

Generally, you should consider hiring a lawyer to represent you any time you find yourself at odds with the insurance company. You will need to collect evidence in order to dispute the insurance company’s stand…

Police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and other public safety workers who have developed heart disease, lung disease, or hypertension are entitled by Virginia Code Section 65.2-402 to a presumption that their occupation caused their disease.

Your workers’ compensation doctor could release you to “full duty, no restriction” work even if you are still in pain and haven’t fully recovered.

Virginia workers hurt on the job are protected by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act. It requires most employers to carry workers’ comp insurance so that employees…

How long you will receive workers’ compensation in Virginia depends on the severity of your injury, your recovery period from those injuries, whether you will…

In Virginia, it is illegal for an employer to fire an employee just for seeking workers’ comp benefits. It is your right to file a worker’s comp claim , and that right is protected…

The most important figure in determining the amount of workers compensation pay you get in Virginia is your average weekly wage (AWW). Your AWW is the basis of all calculations…

It is our right as workers to be compensated for job-related injuries. Still, too many injured workers don’t receive the benefits they need and deserve. Why does this happen?

Virginia law provides compensation for employees who are injured on the job. If you sustained injuries from a work accident or a work condition, you may be able to claim workers’ compensation benefits.