Article 503 Federal Labor Law

For the payment of the compensation (indemnity) in the cases of death or disappearance derived from criminal acts, due to occupational hazard, the following rules shall be observed:

I.The Labor Inspection that receives the notice of the death or of the disappearance due to criminal acts, or the court before which the claim for payment of the compensation (indemnity) is initiated, shall order an investigation to be carried out within the following seventy-two hours aimed at finding out which persons depended economically on the employee and shall order that a notice be fixed in a visible place of the establishment where he rendered his services, summoning the beneficiaries to appear before the court hearing the case, within a term of thirty calendar days, to exercise their rights;

II.If the residence of the employee in the place of his death or when the disappearance due to criminal acts occurred was less than six months, a letter rogatory shall be sent to the court or to the Labor Inspector of the place of the last residence, so that the investigation be carried out and the notice mentioned in the previous section be fixed;

III.The court or the Labor Inspector, independently of the notice referred to in section I, may use the publicity means they deem convenient to summon the beneficiaries;

IV.The Labor Inspector, once the investigation is concluded, shall remit the file to the court;

V.Once the requirements indicated in the preceding sections are satisfied and the nature of the hazard is proven, the court shall proceed in accordance with the provisions of article 893 of the Law, observing the special procedure;

VI.The court shall assess the relationship of husband, wife, children and ascendants, without subjecting itself to the legal evidence that accredits the marriage or kinship, but it may not fail to recognize what is stated in the records of the Civil Registry, and

VII.The payment made in compliance with the resolution of the court releases the employer from liability. The persons who present themselves to assert their rights after the date on which the payment was made may only assert their action against the beneficiaries who received it.