My husband and a true professional driver passed away Tuesday evening in a motel, away from home and his family who loved him. He was considered a local driver, but one night a week he had to stay in a motel as he had to travel further than HOS would allow him to get back home. He was part of the Budweiser support team for the state of Montana, drove a heavy haul to deliver beer to distribution warehouses all around the state. He was the only 'Dad' our two grandson's, age 6 and 3 have ever known, as they have lived in our home with their Mom since they were both born, not to mention my wonderful husband of 23 years.
I have a question...even though he was not in the truck at the time of his death, he was on the job, as his company provided the motel and he was still working with his semi parked outside the motel. Will I get workman's comp payments from his company since it was a death on the job? Myself, our daughter and the grandsons he so cherished will be homeless in a matter of months if we can't get something going to help generate some extra dollars to off-set our loss of income from his job. There is a 10,000 life insurance policy that the company provided to him, but nothing else. I work 30 hours a week, but he was the main breadwinner.
His fellow drivers and warehouse people have wrapped their arms around our family and been at our door offering help, buying an urn for the memorial and supporting the four of us in every way possible, one of the went to the crematorium and picked up his ashes and let him 'ride shotgun' in his truck to save me having to drive 230 miles to pick them up.
Truckers are the best and they all have hearts of gold.
Please if anyone can give me an idea on this workers comp question, I would greatly appreciate it.