Colo. Rev. Stat. § 8-42-117
Benefits to partial dependents
Colorado · Colorado Revised Statutes Title 8 — Labor and Industry · Status: effective
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- Colo. Rev. Stat. § 8-42-117, Benefits to partial dependents, Colorado, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2286802
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(1) If death occurs to an injured employee, other than as a proximate result of the injury, before disability indemnity ceases and the deceased leaves persons partially dependent upon the deceased for support, death benefits shall be as follows:
(a) Where the injury proximately caused permanent total disability, the death benefit shall consist of that proportion of the unpaid and unaccrued portion of the permanent total disability benefit which the employee would have received had the employee lived until said employee had received compensation at the employee's regular rate for a period of six years as the amount devoted by the deceased to the support of such persons for the year immediately prior to the injury bears to the total income of the persons during said year.
(b) Where the injury caused permanent partial disability, the death benefit shall consist of that proportion of the unpaid and unaccrued portion of the permanent partial disability benefit which the employee would have received if the employee had lived as the amount devoted by the deceased to the support of such persons for the year immediately prior to the injury bears to the total income of the persons during said year.