Pay for death is complicated. Im many ways, it's an apples-to-oranges punishment: no amount of money can bring someone back from the dead, so one could argue th

Pay for death is complicated. Im many ways, it's an apples-to-oranges punishment: no amount of money can bring someone back from the dead, so one could argue that no amount of payment is appropriate (or inappropriate) for a death. Assuming we accept the premise "Sorry your loved one is irrevocably gone; here's a sack of cash" is fair: It is, perhaps, the case that since the laws against workplace-caused deaths are older, their damage values have been pinned to lower pre-inflation numbers and the right response to "How can a hostile-work-environment suit cost the company more than a workplace death?" is to increase punitive payments for deaths.