1. The compensation officer may order the payment of compensation and the award of a Governor’s certificate for meritorious citizen’s service to a victim for:
(a) Medical expenses, expenses for psychological counseling and nonmedical remedial care and treatment rendered in accordance with a religious method of healing that are actually and reasonably incurred as a result of the personal injury or death of the victim;
(b) Loss of earnings or support that is reasonably incurred as a result of the total or partial incapacity of the victim for not longer than 52 weeks;
(c) Pecuniary loss to the dependents of a deceased victim;
(d) Funeral expenses that are actually and reasonably incurred as a result of the death of the victim; and
(e) Another loss which results from the personal injury or death of the victim and which the compensation officer determines to be reasonable.
2. The compensation officer may order the payment of compensation for a person who pays the funeral expenses of a victim.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 1153; A 1975, 1790; 1981, 1670; 1983, 818, 1958; 1985, 2102; 1987, 497; 1991, 769; 1995, 2220; 1997, 114, 920; 2001, 384; 2009, 1508; 2015, 2434)
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