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1995 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL NO. 236 Offered January 17, 1994 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 8.01-36.1, relating to recovery of lost earnings. ---------- Patrons--Johnson, Armstrong, Cohen and Melvin ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 8.01-36.1 as follows:

§ 8.01-36.1. Recovery of lost earnings by permanently injured individual.

In any action to recover damages for a permanent injury, it shall be rebuttably presumed that prior to his injury, the injured individual was capable of working until sixty-five years of age and was capable of earning at least an amount equal to the average wage of the Commonwealth as set forth in § 65.2-500.

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