TITLE 72

WORKER’S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS — INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

CHAPTER 4

BENEFITS

72-420.  Compensation to state when dependency not claimed or proved. In case no claim for compensation is made by a dependent of a deceased employee and filed with the commission within one (1) year after the death, or in case a claim is made and filed within such year and no dependency proven, the employer shall pay into the state treasury the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to be deposited in the industrial special indemnity account.

History:

[72-420, added 1981, ch. 261, sec. 7, p. 557; am. 1986, ch. 93, sec. 4, p. 272.]