Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 51.32 - Compensation—Right to and Amount.
51.32.130 - Lump sum for death or permanent total disability.

RCW 51.32.130
Lump sum for death or permanent total disability.

In case of death or permanent total disability, the monthly payment provided may be converted, in whole or in part, into a lump sum payment, not in any case to exceed eight thousand five hundred dollars, equal or proportionate, as the case may be, to the value of the annuity then remaining, to be fixed and certified by the state insurance commissioner, in which event the monthly payments shall cease in whole or in part accordingly or proportionately. Such conversion may be made only upon written application (in case of minor children the application may be by either parent) to the department and shall rest in the discretion of the department. Within the rule aforesaid the amount and value of the lump sum payment may be agreed upon between the department and applicant. In the event any payment shall be due to an alien residing in a foreign country, the department may settle the same by making a lump sum payment in such amount as may be agreed to by such alien, not to exceed fifty percent of the value of the annuity then remaining.
Nothing herein shall preclude the department from making, and authority is hereby given it to make, on its own motion, lump sum payments equal or proportionate, as the case may be, to the value of the annuity then remaining, in full satisfaction of claims due to dependents.

[ 1961 c 23 § 51.32.130. Prior: 1957 c 70 § 45; prior: 1941 c 209 § 2; 1929 c 132 § 3; 1927 c 310 § 6(i); 1917 c 29 § 22; 1911 c 74 § 7; Rem. Supp. 1941 § 7681.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 51 - Industrial Insurance

Chapter 51.32 - Compensation—Right to and Amount.

51.32.010 - Who entitled to compensation.

51.32.015 - Time and place of coverage—Lunch period.

51.32.020 - Who not entitled to compensation.

51.32.025 - Payments for children cease at age eighteen—Exceptions.

51.32.030 - When compensation payable to employer or member of corporate employer.

51.32.040 - Protection of awards—Payment after death—Time limitations for filing—Confinement in institution.

51.32.045 - Direct deposit or electronic payment of benefits.

51.32.050 - Death benefits.

51.32.055 - Determination of permanent disabilities—Closure of claims by self-insurers.

51.32.060 - Permanent total disability compensation—Personal attendant.

51.32.067 - Permanent total disability—Death benefit options—Election.

51.32.072 - Additional payments for prior pensioners—Children—Remarriage—Attendant.

51.32.073 - Additional payments for prior pensioners—Premium liability of worker and employer for additional payments.

51.32.075 - Adjustments in compensation or death benefits.

51.32.080 - Permanent partial disability—Specified—Unspecified, rules for classification—Injury after permanent partial disability.

51.32.090 - Temporary total disability—Partial restoration of earning power—Return to available work—When employer continues wages—Limitations—Finding—Rules.

51.32.095 - Vocational rehabilitation services—Benefits—Priorities—Allowable costs—Performance criteria.

51.32.096 - Vocational rehabilitation benefits and options—Advisory committee—Procedures—Requirements—Definitions—Costs.

51.32.098 - Vocational rehabilitation services—Applicability.

51.32.099 - Vocational rehabilitation pilot program—Vocational plans.

51.32.100 - Preexisting disease.

51.32.110 - Medical examination—Refusal to submit—Traveling expenses—Pay for time lost.

51.32.112 - Medical examination—Standards and criteria—Special examinations by chiropractors—Compensation guidelines and reporting criteria.

51.32.114 - Medical examination—Department to monitor quality and objectivity.

51.32.120 - Further accident after lump sum payment.

51.32.130 - Lump sum for death or permanent total disability.

51.32.135 - Closing of claim in pension cases—Consent of spouse.

51.32.140 - Nonresident alien beneficiary.

51.32.150 - Lump sum to beneficiary outside state.

51.32.160 - Aggravation, diminution, or termination.

51.32.180 - Occupational diseases—Limitation.

51.32.181 - Occupational diseases—Public health emergencies—Infectious or contagious diseases.

51.32.185 - Occupational diseases—Presumption of occupational disease for firefighters and fire investigators—Limitations—Exception—Rules—Advisory committee on occupational disease presumptions.

51.32.187 - Exposed workers—Prima facie presumption of certain occupational diseases—Rebuttal—Definitions.

51.32.1871 - Annual report on claims.

51.32.190 - Self-insurers—Notice of denial of claim, reasons—Procedure—Powers and duties of director.

51.32.195 - Self-insurers—Information to department.

51.32.200 - Self-insurers—Enforcement of compensation order against.

51.32.210 - Claims of injured workers, prompt action—Payment—Acceptance—Effect.

51.32.215 - Payment of compensation after appeal—Enforcement of order—Penalty.

51.32.220 - Reduction in total disability compensation—Limitations—Notice—Waiver—Adjustment for retroactive reduction in federal social security disability benefit—Restrictions.

51.32.225 - Reduction in total disability compensation—Offset for social security retirement benefits.

51.32.230 - Recovery of overpayments.

51.32.240 - Erroneous payments—Payments induced by willful misrepresentation—Adjustment for self-insurer's failure to pay benefits—Recoupment of overpayments by self-insurer—Penalty—Appeal—Enforcement of orders.

51.32.242 - Self-insured employer overpayment reimbursement fund—Withholding from worker earnings—Use of funds—Exception.

51.32.250 - Payment of job modification costs.

51.32.260 - Compensation for loss or damage to personal effects.

51.32.300 - State employee vocational rehabilitation coordinator.

51.32.350 - Chemically related illness—Criteria and procedures for claims—Claims management.

51.32.360 - Chemically related illness—Centers for research and clinical assessment.

51.32.370 - Chemically related illness—Research projects—Implementation plan—Funding—Deductions from employees' pay.

51.32.380 - Injured offenders—Benefits sent in the care of the department of corrections—Exception—Liability.

51.32.390 - Health care employees—Presumption of occupational disease for infectious or contagious diseases which are the subject of a public health emergency—Rebuttal—Limitations—Costs.