PART V COMPENSATION AND RIGHT OF ACTION — Compensation where fatal accident
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(1) Where the death of a worker results from an injury, the amount of compensation paid to the worker's surviving dependent spouse or cohabiting partner and children and the expenses paid for the burial of the worker shall be the amounts prescribed in the regulations.
75(1.1)
Where, as a result of an injury, a worker dies on or after January 1, 2022, the commission may, in accordance with the regulations, pay for bereavement counselling for the worker's surviving dependent spouse or cohabiting partner and children.
75(2)
Notwithstanding subsection (1), the commission may annually increase the amount of compensation prescribed in the regulations that is to be paid to the worker's surviving dependent spouse or cohabiting partner and children by applying the Consumer Price Index for Canada as published by Statistics Canada.
75(3)
Where compensation is not payable under subsection (1) and a person other than those referred to in subsection (1) is a dependent, an amount proportionate to the monetary loss to those dependents occasioned by the death of the worker that may be determined by the commission shall be paid by the commission to the dependents.
75(4)
Payments provided for in subsection (3) shall continue only as long as in the opinion of the commission it might reasonably have been expected that the worker, had the worker lived, would have continued to contribute to the support of the dependent.
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