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Workmen's Compensation Act of the Territory of Hawaii, 1915
Workmen's Compensation Act of the Territory of Hawaii 1915 Author:Hawaii Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IL COMPENSATION. Death Benefits. Section 7. If death results from the injury within six months, the employer or the insurance carrier shall pay to the p... more »ersons entitled to compensation or, if there be none, then to the personal representative of the deceased employee, burial expenses not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) ; and shall also pay to or for the following persons for the following periods a weekly compensation equal to the following percentages of the deceased employee's average weekly wages as denned in Section 15; (a) To the dependent widow or widower, if there be no dependent children, forty per cent. (b) To the dependent widow or widower, if there be one or two dependent children, fifty per cent., or if there be three or more dependent children, sixty per cent. Such compensation to the widow or widower shall be for the use and benefit of such widow or widower and of the dependent children, and the industrial accident board may from time to time apportion such compensation between them in such way as it deems best. (c) If there be no dependent widow or widower, but a dependent child or children, then to such child or children thirty per cent., with ten per cent. additional for each child in excess of two, with a maximum of fifty per cent., to be divided equally among such children if more than one. (d) If there be neither dependent widow, widower, nor child, but there be a dependent father or mother, then to such parent, if wholly dependent forty per cent., or if partially dependent twenty-five per cent., or if both parents be dependent then one-half of the foregoing compensation to each of them; or, if there be no such parents, but a dependent grandparent, then to every such grandparent the same compensation as to a parent. (e) If there b...« less