Can my family receive benefits if I die from a work injury?

Answer

If you’re killed in the workplace and you can’t show that some third party’s at fault, you’re only entitled to—your surviving spouse or dependent children are only entitled to—your weekly benefits. They’re only entitled to workers comp benefits. So there’s that scenario where if someone’s killed on the job, that would be a death case. That would be, if there’s a surviving spouse and surviving dependent children, then they have the right to bring an action or a petition for workers compensation benefits on account of death and receive weekly benefits. And then those cases typically end up settling because obviously the death—you know, the death is an unchanging circumstance. So that’s—that’s like someone was total for their whole—and so the surviving spouse would be entitled to receive that until her death or the dependents until they reach, you know, the age of majority or are able to earn on their own.

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