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Death benefits—income replacement benefits and treatment and care benefits still payable

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Chapter 2Motor accident injuries—defined benefits
Part 2.7Defined benefits—death benefits
Division 2.7.3Death benefits—amount payable

175 Death benefits—income replacement benefits and treatment and care benefits still payable

(1)

This section applies if—

(a)

the relevant insurer for a motor accident accepts liability for an application for death benefits in relation to a dead person for the motor accident; and

(b)

before the person died, the person was entitled to—

(i)

income replacement benefits; or

(ii)

treatment and care benefits.

(2)

The relevant insurer—

(a)

is not entitled to recover any amount of income replacement benefits or treatment and care benefits already paid to the person; and

(b)

must pay to the person’s estate any amount of income replacement benefits or treatment and care benefits to which the person was entitled and had not received when the person died.

Division 2.7.4 Death benefits—payment

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