The Law of Workmen's Compensation: (taken from L.R.A. 1916 A)

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Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1916 - 566 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 29 - If in any employment [to which this act applies] personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman, his employer shall, subject as hereinafter mentioned, be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the first schedule to this act.
Σελίδα 106 - Provided that: — (a) The employer shall not be liable under this act in respect of any injury which does not disable the workman for a period of at least two weeks from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed...
Σελίδα 428 - No act of the General Assembly shall limit the amount to be recovered for injuries resulting in death, or for injuries to persons or property; and, in case of death from such injuries, the right of action shall survive, and the General Assembly shall prescribe for whose benefit such actions shall be prosecuted.
Σελίδα 30 - I come therefore to the conclusion that the expression 'accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlooked-for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed.
Σελίδα 372 - ... was being earned by a person in the same grade employed at the same work by the same employer, or, if there is no person so employed, by a person in the same grade employed In the same class of employment and In the same district...
Σελίδα 448 - Washington, therefore, exercising herein its police and sovereign power, declares that all phases of the premises are withdrawn from private controversy, and sure and certain relief for workmen, injured in extra hazardous work, and their families and dependents is hereby provided regardless of questions of fault and to the exclusion of every other remedy, proceeding or compensation, except as otherwise provided in this act; and to that end all civil actions and civil causes of action for such personal...
Σελίδα 288 - The employer to whom notice of the death, disablement, or suspension is to be given shall be the employer who last employed the workman during the said twelve months in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due...
Σελίδα 376 - ... the proportionate extent of the impairment of his earning capacity in the employment in which he was working at the time of the accident...
Σελίδα 307 - It need not have been foreseen or expected, but after the event it must appear to have had Its origin in a risk connected with the employment, and to have flowed from that source as a rational consequence.
Σελίδα 452 - Court that as to those subjects which require a general system or uniformity of regulation the power of Congress is exclusive. In other matters, admitting of diversity of treatment according to the special requirements of local conditions, the States may act within their respective jurisdictions until Congress sees fit to act; and when Congress does act, the. exercise of its authority overrides all conflicting State legislation.

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