When, as a proximate result of an injury, death occurs to an injured employee, there shall be paid in one lump sum within thirty days after death a sum not to exceed seven thousand dollars for reasonable funeral and burial expenses. Said sum may be paid to the undertaker, cemetery, or any other person who has paid the funeral and burial costs, if the director so orders. If the employee leaves no dependents, compensation shall be limited to said sum and the compensation, if any, which has accrued to date of death and the medical, surgical, and hospital expenses provided in articles 40 to 47 of this title. If the deceased employee leaves dependents, said sum shall be paid in addition to all other sums of compensation provided for in this article.
Source: L. 90: Entire article R&RE, p. 497, § 1, effective July 1. L. 91: Entire section amended, p. 1313, § 20, effective July 1. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 431, § 1, effective April 17.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 8-50-107 as it existed prior to 1990.
Structure Colorado Code
§ 8-42-103. Disability Indemnity Payable as Wages - Period of Disability
§ 8-42-104. Effect of Previous Injury or Compensation
§ 8-42-105. Temporary Total Disability
§ 8-42-106. Temporary Partial Disability
§ 8-42-107.5. Limits on Temporary Disability Payments and Permanent Partial Disability Payments
§ 8-42-107.6. Premium Dividend for Employing Injured Employees
§ 8-42-108. Disfigurement - Additional Compensation
§ 8-42-109. Added Compensation for Additional Injuries
§ 8-42-111. Award for Permanent Total Disability
§ 8-42-112. Acts of Employees Reducing Compensation
§ 8-42-112.5. Limitation on Payments - Use of Controlled Substances
§ 8-42-113.5. Recovery of Overpayments - Notice Required
§ 8-42-115. Death From Injury - Benefits
§ 8-42-116. When Death Not Proximate Result - Benefits
§ 8-42-117. Benefits to Partial Dependents
§ 8-42-118. Applicability of Repeal of Death Benefits to Nonresident Dependents
§ 8-42-119. Partial Dependents - Compensation
§ 8-42-120. Termination of Right to Benefits
§ 8-42-121. Director to Determine and Apportion Benefits
§ 8-42-122. Minor Dependents - Safeguarding Payments
§ 8-42-124. Assignability and Exemption of Claims - Payment to Employers - When
§ 8-42-125. Data Gathering on Workers' Compensation System
§ 8-42-126. Monetary Benefits and Penalties - Timely Payment - Determination of Date Deemed Paid