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LEKAN v. P & L FIRE PROTECTION CO.

No. 53437.

609 P.2d 1289 (1980)

Loretta Lynn LEKAN, Claimant and Surviving Spouse of John Frank Lekan, III, Deceased, Claimant, v. P & L FIRE PROTECTION CO. and State Insurance Fund, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

April 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DeVilliers & DeVilliers by W. Rodney DeVilliers, Sr., Oklahoma City, for claimant.

Michelin DeLier, State Insurance Fund, Oklahoma City, for respondents.

OPALA, Justice:

By the 1977 amendments which established the Workers' Compensation Act effective July 1, 1978,1 the aggregate weekly income benefits2 due all eligible survivors of a worker who died from a compensable injury cannot exceed the rate for permanent total disability3. That rate stands limited by § 22(6) to:

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