Lekan v. P & L Fire Protection Co.

OP ALA, Justice:

By the 1977 amendments which established the Workers’ Compensation Act effective July 1, 1978, 1 the aggregate weekly income benefits 2 due all eligible survivors of a worker who died from a compensable injury cannot exceed the rate for permanent total disability 3 . That rate stands limited by § 22(6) to:

“. . Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) per week beginning as of the effective date of the Workers’ Compensation Act [July 1,1978], and Ninety Dollars ($90.00) per week beginning January 1, 1979, and One Hundred Ten Dollars ($110.00) per week beginning January 1, 1980, and to…