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- Title: Jurado v. Popejoy Constr. Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 28, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is a workers compensation appeal involving the
constitutionality of a statute limiting nonresident alien
dependents' death benefits to $750. Under the Workers
Compensation Act, all other dependents' death benefits are fixed
in an amount not to exceed $200,000. The trial court upheld the
constitutionality of the statute. We reverse and remand for
further proceedings consistent with our opinion. On August 21, 1990, 39-year-old Fermin A. Jurado, a resident
alien of Mexico, died as a result of massive head injuries he
received while working for Popejoy Construction Company (Popejoy)
located near Syracuse, Kansas. He had lived and worked in Kansas
since 1988. He moved to Kansas to learn English and eventually
pursue his profession as an engineer in this country. He had
received an engineering degree from the Technological Institute
of the City of Juarez in Mexico in 1979. At the time of his
death, he was survived by his wife and three children, ages 7, 4,
and 2, all of whom were residents and citizens of the
[253 Kan. 118]