Missouri bill would expand workers comp death benefits eligibility

Missouri lawmakers have launched a proposal that may modify how employees compensation dying advantages are paid in instances the place an injured employee dies with no dependents.

H.B. 2983, launched Wednesday, would amend the state’s definition of member of the family with respect to dying advantages eligibility to incorporate: “the grownup baby or kids, pure, illegitimate, adopted, or posthumous, who didn’t qualify as a dependent… attributable to age or dependency; a mother or father of the deceased, pure or adoptive; a grandparent of the deceased, pure or adoptive; a sibling of the deceased; an grownup subsequent of kin; or the conservator of a dependent baby if such baby has no consultant to deliver a declare on his or her personal behalf.”