2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 53 LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 616C Industrial Insurance: Benefits for Injuries or Death
NRS 616C.455 Increase in benefits for permanent total disability incurred before April 9, 1971.
NRS 616C.455 Increase in benefits for permanent total disability incurred before April 9, 1971.
1. Any claimant or dependent of a claimant who resides in this State and receives compensation for a permanent total disability caused by an industrial injury or a disablement from an occupational disease which occurred before April 9, 1971, is entitled to a 65 percent increase in that compensation, without regard to any limitation on wages imposed by chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS on the amount of that compensation.
2. The increase must be paid from the account for pensions for silicosis, diseases related to asbestos and other disabilities.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 538; A 1975, 823; 1979, 1520; 1981, 1226; 1985, 723; 1987, 589; 1991, 1802)-(Substituted in revision for NRS 616.626)
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