65.2-307 - Employee's rights under Act exclude all others.
§ 65.2-307. Employee's rights under Act exclude all others.
A. The rights and remedies herein granted to an employee when his employerand he have accepted the provisions of this title respectively to pay andaccept compensation on account of injury or death by accident shall excludeall other rights and remedies of such employee, his personal representative,parents, dependents or next of kin, at common law or otherwise, on account ofsuch injury, loss of service or death.
B. Notwithstanding this exclusion, nothing in the Act shall bar an employerfrom voluntarily agreeing to pay an employee compensation above and beyondthose benefits provided for in the Act. Nothing herein, however, shall bedeemed to affect or alter any existing right or remedy of the employer oremployee under the Act.
(Code 1950, § 65-37; 1968, c. 660, § 65.1-40; 1991, c. 355; 1999, c. 842.)