287.230. 1. The death of the injured employee shall not affect the liability of the employer to furnish compensation as in this chapter provided, so far as the liability has accrued and become payable at the time of the death, and any accrued and unpaid compensation due the employee shall be paid to his dependents without administration, or if there are no dependents, to his personal representative or other persons entitled thereto, but the death shall be deemed to be the termination of the disability.
2. Where an employee is entitled to compensation under this chapter for an injury received and death ensues for any cause not resulting from the injury for which he was entitled to compensation, payments of the unpaid accrued compensation shall be paid, but payments of the unpaid unaccrued balance for the injury shall cease and all liability therefor shall terminate unless there are surviving dependents at the time of death.
(RSMo 1939 § 3708, A.L. 1965 p. 397)Prior revision: 1929 § 3318
(1954) Award of benefits to dependent for weeks after the death of employee (from independent cause) held proper under subsection 2 of this section. Henderson v. National Bearing Division (A.), 267 S.W.2d 349.
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