The workers' compensation board did not return a call yesterday seeking comment.

The compensation board had already paid out a similar amount of funds to the deceased miners' families.

In most provinces the workers' compensation board or commission remains concerned solely with insurance.

That made Landis the first company the state ever fined for failing to report injuries to the workers' compensation board.

Texas also restricted legal appeals by workers of rulings by compensation boards.

The other families elected to allow the Workers Compensation Board to sue on their behalf.

Workers injured while employed by private companies or by state and local government agencies should contact their state workers' compensation board.

After leaving politics, he served as chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board.

He was also on the state's Workers' Compensation Board of Arbitration.

More information about compensation payments to victims of serious crime is available at the Compensation Board's website.