State ex rel. Doersam v. Industrial Commission

R.C. 4123.59(B) provides for death benefits to specified relatives of a decedent worker. Its pertinent provisions are:

“In case an injury to or an occupational disease contracted by an em*202ployee causes his death, benefits shall be in the amount and to the persons following:

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“(B) If there are wholly dependent persons at the time of the death, the weekly payment shall be sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the average weekly wage, but not to exceed a maximum aggregate amount of weekly compensation which is equal to sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the statewide average weekly wage as…