In any suit brought for personal injury or death, provable damages for loss of income due to such injury or death shall not be diminished because of reimbursement of income to the plaintiff or decedent from any other source, nor shall the fact of any such reimbursement be admitted into evidence.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-35
Damages for loss of income not diminished by reimbursement
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Karsten v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc. (1992)
Most recently applied in Oswald v. Holtzman (January 2015)
Code 1950, § 8-628.3; 1974, c. 155; 1977, c. 617.
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Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.