Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 51.1 > Chapter 11.1 > Article 4 - Administrative Provisions.

• Act: means the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act (§ Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Company: means an insurance company issuing a long-term disability insurance policy purchased by the Board pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Disability: means a partial disability or total disability. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Disability benefit: means income replacement payments payable to a participating employee under a short-term or long-term disability benefit program pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• in writing: include any representation of words, letters, symbols, numbers, or figures, whether (i) printed or inscribed on a tangible medium or (ii) stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in a perceivable form and whether an electronic signature authorized by Virginia Code 1-257
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Participating employee: means any eligible employee required to participate in the program. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
• Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
• Program: means the program providing short-term disability and long-term disability benefits for participating employees established pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1150
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245