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2024 Delaware Code
Title 19 - Labor
Chapter 23. Workers’ Compensation
Subchapter II. Payments for Injuries or Death and Incidental Benefits
§ 2331. Burial expenses where death results from injury.
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§ 2331. Burial expenses where death results from injury.
If death results from the injury, the employer shall pay the reasonable burial expenses of an injured employee, not exceeding $3,500, but without deduction of any amount theretofore paid for compensation or medical expense, except that any bill for reasonable funeral expenses resulting from the death of an injured employee contracted for in an amount in excess of $3,500 may be approved by the Industrial Accident Board.
Code 1915, § 3193i; 29 Del. Laws, c. 233; Code 1935, § 6079; 43 Del. Laws, c. 269, § 7; 44 Del. Laws, c. 202, § 1; 19 Del. C. 1953, § 2331; 49 Del. Laws, c. 429, § 4; 50 Del. Laws, c. 339, § 12; 55 Del. Laws, c. 83, § 3; 70 Del. Laws, c. 141, § 1;
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