California Labor Code ARTICLE 4 - Death Benefits

• Section 4700.
  The death of an injured employee does not affect the liability of the employer under Articles 2 (commencing with Section 4600) and 3 (commencing with...
• Section 4701.
  If an injury causes death, either with or without disability, the employer shall be liable, in addition to any other benefits provided by this division,...
• Section 4702.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and Sections 4553, 4554, 4557, and 4558, and notwithstanding any amount of compensation paid or otherwise owing to...
• Section 4703.
  Subject to the provisions of Section 4704, this section shall determine the right to a death benefit.If there is any person wholly dependent for support...
• Section 4703.5.
  (a) In the case of one or more totally dependent children, as defined in Section 3501, after payment of the amount specified in Section 4702, and...
• Section 4703.6.
  The provisions of Section 4703.5 shall also apply to a totally dependent minor child of a local safety member as defined in Article 4 (commencing...
• Section 4704.
  The appeals board may set apart or reassign the death benefit to any one or more of the dependents in accordance with their respective needs...
• Section 4705.
  The person to whom the death benefit is paid for the use of the several beneficiaries shall apply it in compliance with the findings and...
• Section 4706.
  (a) If a dependent beneficiary of any deceased employee dies and there is no surviving dependent, the payments of the death benefit accrued and payable at...
• Section 4706.5.
  (a) Whenever any fatal injury is suffered by an employee under circumstances that would entitle the employee to compensation benefits, but for his or her death,...
• Section 4707.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no benefits, except reasonable expenses of burial not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), shall be awarded under this division...
• Section 4708.
  Upon application of any party in interest for a death benefit provided by this division on the death of an employee member of the Public...
• Section 4709.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a dependent of a peace officer, as defined in Section 830.1, 830.2, 830.3, 830.31, 830.32, 830.33, 830.34, 830.35, 830.36, 830.37, 830.38,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018