102.46 Death benefit. Where death proximately results from the injury and the deceased leaves a person wholly dependent upon him or her for support, the death benefit shall equal 4 times his or her average annual earnings, but when added to the disability indemnity paid and due at the time of death, shall not exceed two-thirds of weekly wage for the number of weeks set out in s. 102.44 (3).
History: 1979 c. 278; 1981 c. 92.
Death benefits under the worker's compensation law. Fortune. WBB Apr. 1987.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 102 - Worker's compensation.
102.03 - Conditions of liability.
102.04 - Definition of employer.
102.05 - Election by employer, withdrawal.
102.06 - Joint liability of employer and contractor.
102.075 - Election by sole proprietor, partner or member.
102.076 - Election by corporate officer.
102.077 - Election by school district or private school.
102.078 - Election by real estate firm.
102.08 - Administration for state employees.
102.11 - Earnings, method of computation.
102.12 - Notice of injury, exception, laches.
102.123 - Statement of employee.
102.125 - Fraud reporting, investigation, and prosecution.
102.13 - Examination; competent witnesses; exclusion of evidence; autopsy.
102.14 - Jurisdiction of department and division; advisory committee.
102.16 - Submission of disputes, contributions by employees.
102.17 - Procedure; notice of hearing; witnesses, contempt; testimony, medical examination.
102.175 - Apportionment of liability.
102.18 - Findings, orders and awards.
102.19 - Alien dependents; payments through consular officers.
102.195 - Employees confined in institutions; payment of benefits.
102.21 - Payment of awards by local governmental units.
102.22 - Penalty for delayed payments; interest.
102.25 - Appeal from judgment on award.
102.27 - Claims and awards protected; exceptions.
102.28 - Preference of claims; worker's compensation insurance.
102.29 - Third party liability.
102.30 - Other insurance not affected; liability of insured employer.
102.31 - Worker's compensation insurance; policy regulations.
102.315 - Worker's compensation insurance; employee leasing companies.
102.32 - Continuing liability; guarantee settlement, gross payment.
102.33 - Forms and records; public access.
102.38 - Records and reports of payments.
102.40 - Reports not evidence in actions.
102.42 - Incidental compensation.
102.425 - Prescription and nonprescription drug treatment.
102.43 - Weekly compensation schedule.
102.45 - Benefits payable to minors; how paid.
102.47 - Death benefit, continued.
102.48 - Death benefit, continued.
102.49 - Additional death benefit for children, state fund.
102.52 - Permanent partial disability schedule.
102.53 - Multiple injury variations.
102.54 - Injury to dominant hand.
102.55 - Application of schedules.
102.555 - Occupational deafness; definitions.
102.565 - Toxic or hazardous exposure; medical examination; conditions of liability.
102.57 - Violations of safety provisions, penalty.
102.58 - Decreased compensation.
102.59 - Preexisting disability, indemnity.
102.60 - Minor illegally employed.
102.61 - Indemnity under rehabilitation law.
102.62 - Primary and secondary liability; unchangeable.
102.64 - Attorney general shall represent state and commission.
102.65 - Work injury supplemental benefit fund.
102.66 - Payment of certain barred claims.
102.75 - Administrative expenses.
102.80 - Uninsured employers fund.
102.81 - Compensation for injured employee of uninsured employer.
102.82 - Uninsured employer payments.
102.83 - Collection of uninsured employer payments.
102.835 - Levy for delinquent payments.
102.84 - Preference of required payments.
102.85 - Uninsured employers; penalties.