CRB Case Annotations re: Section 31-308(d)
Payment to employee, dependents, or children of any age.
Flouton v. Can, Inc., 4379 CRB-7-01-4 (March 13, 2002).
Issue: whether a decedent’s estate is entitled to receive vested but unmatured (i.e. unaccrued) permanent partial disability benefits pursuant to § 31-308(d). Board reviewed legislative history of P.A. 89-346, which lists class of eligible persons who can receive permanency benefits upon claimant’s death as surviving spouse, dependents, or children of any age. Board concluded that decedents’ estates did not fall within this class.
