Vocational & Rehabilitation Experts in Virginia

Virginia's circuit courts are the trial courts with the broadest powers in the state, one in each city and county as Virginia's Judicial System states it on its own page; they hear the personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death actions in which vocational and life care evidence is offered, and family matters including divorce. The General District Courts hear the smaller civil claims, and the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts hear custody, support and visitation matters, including the support matters in which a spouse's earning capacity is evaluated; the circuit court hears the cases appealed from both, as its page states. Appeals go to the Court of Appeals of Virginia, an intermediate appellate court, and to the Supreme Court of Virginia, whose page states that its primary function is to review decisions of lower tribunals. The Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission is the forum for workers' compensation claims; its locations page lists a Richmond headquarters, regional offices in Bristol, Fairfax, Harrisonburg, Manassas, Roanoke and Virginia Beach, and its hearing and mediation locations. Vocational and life care evidence in these forums turns on the claimant's pre-injury occupation, the physical demands of the work available in the relevant regional market, and documented future care needs.

Virginia's federal courts, the Eastern District of Virginia and the Western District of Virginia, set expert report and disclosure deadlines in the scheduling order. As their own sites list them, the Eastern District of Virginia names four divisions, Alexandria, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond, and the Western District of Virginia has courthouses in Abingdon, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg and Roanoke.

KWVRS maintains an office in Richmond, Virginia. Vocational evaluations for Virginia matters draw on the wage and employment data of the region where the claimant lives and works, from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics and Local Area Unemployment Statistics series of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; this site's Richmond page reports the Richmond, VA area's own figures. Reports are organized to the disclosure requirements of the forum. Attorneys confirm the governing rule for their case.