VWC Style Guide
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GENERAL INFORMATION
2
Numbers
3
20-Day Order and 30-Day Order
3
A
3
Acronyms and abbreviations
3
Addresses
4
Also
4
Ampersand (&)
4
Assertion of Rights
4
Attributions for direct quotes
4
Attorney
4
B
5
Board
5
Bulleted lists (punctuation)
5
C
5
Canceled not Cancelled
5
Capitalization rules
5
Cities/States
5
Claim Form vs. Claim for Benefits Form
6
Claim Adjuster/Claim Administrator vs. Third Party Administrator
6
Claimant
6
Contractions
6
Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund / Virginia Victims Fund
6
Code of Virginia
6
D
7
Data
7
Date of Injury (DOI)
7
Dates
7
Defendants
7
Dependent
7
Dispute Form
7
E
7
Email
7
Emphasis
7
Employee- injured worker
7
Employees- VWC employees
7
Employer’s Application for Hearing
8
Esquire
8
F
8
Flier, flyer
8
Form 16A, 17A and 61A
8
Full time, part time
8
G
8
General Assembly
8
H
8
Headquarters
8
Health Care Provider vs. Medical Care Provider
8
Hyphen
9
I
9
Inc.
9
Injured worker
9
In-person
9
Internet
9
Insurance Carrier vs. Insurer
9
Judicial
9
Lawyer
9
Login, logon, logoff (noun or adjective)
10
M
10
Medical Fee Schedule
10
Medical Care Provider vs. Health Care Provider
10
More than vs. over
10
N
10
Names
10
Numbers
10
O
10
P
11
Percent
11
Phone number style
11
Plurals of acronyms
11
Prepositions
11
Protective filing
11
Punctuation placement with other punctuation
11
Q
12
R
12
Record-keeping
12
S
12
Section vs. Title When referring to the Code of Virginia, Section and Title can be used interchangeably.
12
Serial comma (also known as Oxford comma)
12
Spacing after periods and colons
12
Staff For internal use, use “Team Members”, do not use “employees” or “staff”.
12
State abbreviations
12
T
12
Telephone Numbers
12
Third Party Administrator
12
Time
12
Titles
13
Toll-free
13
Tone
13
U
13
URLs
13
Uninsured Employer’s Fund
13
V
13
Verbs
13
Vertical punctuation of bulleted lists
14
VWC
14
VWC / Virginia Workers Compensation Commission
14
Virginia Victims Fund
14
W
15
Web
15
WebFile
15
Worker’s vs. workers vs. workers’
15
Workforce
15
Workplace
15
Work-related injury / occupational disease
15
www
15
X
15
Y
15
Year-end
15
Z
16
Zip Codes
16
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