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The "Virginia Workmen's Compensation Act" was renamed "Virginia Workers' Compensation Act" in 1983. The Commission was statutorily directed by the General Assembly to administer the Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program which was created by The Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act in 1987.
The Crime Victims Compensation Act (2008) allowed Croatian citizens to receive compensation if they experienced serious personal injury. [56] In 2015, Croatia's parliament adopted laws awarding victims of rape committed during the 1991–1995 Independence War compensation as well as free access to therapeutic, medical, and legal services. [58] [59]
Families of these victims felt the compensation offers were too low, and, had a court considered their case on an individual basis, they would have been awarded much higher amounts. This concern had to be balanced against the time, complications, and risks of pursuing an individual case, and the real possibility that the airlines and their ...
For more on the Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund, see VCF.gov. Patrick Varine is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Patrick by email at pvarine@triblive.com or via Twitter .
The percentage given to crime victim compensation programs [8] and for crime victim assistance [9] was lowered from 48.5% to 47.5%, while funds for demonstration projects, program evaluation, compliance efforts, training and technical assistance services to eligible crime victim assistance programs and for the financial support of services to ...
At common law, a victim of a personal injury and others with a direct interest in the outcome of an action (e.g., the victim's spouse) were automatically disqualified from testifying about the injury or its consequences (because the victim's self-interest in recovery was seen as inevitably resulting in an unacceptably high risk of perjury). [5]
The Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) is an agency of the Virginia state government that provides benefits and services to unemployed citizens, such as employment programs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The agency currently runs a monthly newsletter, sends monthly reports to the Virginia General Assembly , and issues press releases.
Virginia is the first state in the U.S. to do this, driven in part by the mass shootings at a Walmart in Chesapeake last year.