Vermont Statutes Title 21 Sec. 637
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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 21 Sec. 637
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Labor or the Commissioner's designee. See
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Employer: includes any body of persons, corporate or unincorporated, public or private, and the legal representative of a deceased employer, and includes the owner or lessee of premises or other person who is virtually the proprietor or operator of the business there carried on, but who, by reason of there being an independent contractor or for any other reason, is not the direct employer of the workers there employed. See
§ 637. Death benefits; rival claimants
Payment of death benefits by an employer in good faith to a dependent subsequent in right to another or other dependents shall protect and discharge the employer unless and until such dependent or dependents prior in right have given him notice of his, her, or their claim. In case the employer is in doubt as to the respective rights of rival claimants, he or she may apply to the Commissioner to decide between them.