All insurance contracts on or with respect to the ownership, maintenance or use of property in this Commonwealth shall be deemed to have been made in and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of this Commonwealth.
Va. Code Ann. § 38.2-313
Where certain contracts deemed made
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Gordon v. Colonial Ins. Co. of California (2000)
Most recently applied in Encompass Independent Insurance Co. v. Dombrosky (February 2017)
Code 1950, § 38-162; 1952, c. 317, § 38.1-340; 1986, c. 562.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.