(a) Each covered person under this chapter shall submit to the person’s employing state, county or municipal agency, volunteer fire department or ambulance operator, the name of the beneficiary or beneficiaries and alternate beneficiaries such covered persons wish to receive the payment provided for by § 6602(a)(1) of this title. Beneficiary designation will be submitted to the Insurance Commissioner with the submission of any claim. The covered person may designate that any payment shall be divided among 2 or more beneficiaries as provided by this subsection in any proportion. Only the spouse, children or parents of a covered person shall be eligible beneficiaries to receive payment under § 6602(a)(1) of this title. Should a designated beneficiary or beneficiaries be dead or ineligible, then eligible alternate beneficiaries shall take hereunder in the order indicated by the covered person. Should a covered person not designate a primary or alternate beneficiary or beneficiaries, the following in the order of position of eligibility shall receive the payment:
(1) Spouse, if alive, if not;
(2) Living children, the sum to be divided among the living children equally;
(3) Parents, each parent to take 50 percent if both are living.
(b) Each covered person, as defined in § 6601(2)a., b. or f. of this title, shall, if § 6602(a)(1) of this title and subsection (a) of this section do not apply, submit to such person’s employing state, county or municipal agency, volunteer fire department or ambulance operator, the name of the beneficiary or beneficiaries such covered person wishes to receive the payment provided for by § 6602(a)(3) of this title. Beneficiary designations will be submitted to the Insurance Commissioner with the submission of any claim. Only the living parents of such covered person shall be eligible beneficiaries to receive payment under § 6602(a)(3) of this title. The covered person may designate that any payment shall be divided among 2 eligible beneficiaries in any proportion. Should a designated beneficiary be dead, then eligible alternate beneficiaries shall take hereunder as indicated by the covered person. Should the covered person not designate a primary or alternate eligible beneficiary or beneficiaries, the living parents, shall receive the payment, which shall be divided between the living parents equally.
(c) Payments under § 6602(a)(1) of this title in accordance with subsection (a) of this section shall take priority. Any payments pursuant to § 6602(a)(1) of this title and subsection (a) of this section shall preclude the applicability of § 6602(a)(3) of this title and subsection (b) of this section.
18 Del. C. 1953, § 6603; 58 Del. Laws, c. 504, § 1; 63 Del. Laws, c. 71, § 4; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 213, § 2; 79 Del. Laws, c. 434, § 2.
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