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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
1. Any widow, widower, surviving child or surviving dependent parent who is receiving death benefits pursuant to chapters 616A to 617, inclusive, of NRS on account of an industrial injury or a disablement from an occupational disease is entitled to an annual increase in those death benefits in the amount of 2.3 percent. The benefits must be increased pursuant to this section:
(a) On January 1, 2020; and
(b) On January 1 of each year thereafter.
2. Any increase in death benefits provided pursuant to this section is in addition to any increase in death benefits to which a widow, widower, surviving child or surviving dependent parent is otherwise entitled by law.
3. Any increase in death benefits pursuant to this section on account of an industrial injury or a disablement from an occupational disease that occurred on or after July 1, 2019, must be paid by insurers, including, without limitation, employers who provide accident benefits for injured employees pursuant to NRS 616C.265, without reimbursement from the Fund for Workers' Compensation and Safety pursuant to NRS 616C.268.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Nevada Revised Statutes Title 53. Labor and Industrial Relations § 616C.508. Annual increase in death benefits - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nv/title-53-labor-and-industrial-relations/nv-rev-st-616c-508/
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