State Industrial Insurance System v. Lodge

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• presupposing that widow's death benefit claim was an independent claim that was not foreclosed by decedent employee's failure to timely claim disability benefits before his death
• construing Nevada statute to hold that spouse’s benefits are separate and distinct from those of the injured worker and not derivative from the rights of the deceased worker and thus not extinguished because the worker failed to make a timely claim
• The Nevada Supreme Court held a widow’s claim was independent from, rather than derivative of, worker’s claim.

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