TITLE 72

WORKER’S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS — INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

CHAPTER 4

BENEFITS

72-436.  Burial expenses. If death results from the injury within four (4) years, the employer shall pay to the person entitled to compensation, or if there is none then to the personal representative of the deceased employee, a sum not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) for funeral and burial or cremation, together with the actual expenses of transportation of the employee’s body to his place of residence within the United States or Canada.

History:

[72-436, added 1971, ch. 124, sec. 3, p. 422; am. 2006, ch. 206, sec. 4, p. 634; am. 2021, ch. 82, sec. 2, p. 271.]