Report of the Commission on Compensation for Industrial Accidents: July 1, 1912 |
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REPORT OF THE COMM ON COMPENSA James Arnold Lowell,Massachusetts Commission on Compensatio No preview available - 2016 |
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accident fund Accidents reported amount of compensation apply appointed approved arbitration association average weekly wages cause cause of action claim for compensation Class commission commissioner of insurance committee common law compensation act compulsory computed contributory negligence cost death benefit death results deceased deemed determined dollars election employer employment enacted entitled examination exceed expenses fifty per centum filing hereby incapacity industrial accident board injured employee injured person injured workman injury or death insurance company judgment justice labor Legislature less liability loss lump sum manufacturing Massachusetts ment months National Civic Federation negligence number of employees paid partial disability party pay compensation pay roll payable pensation period personal injury phalange physician ploye ployees premiums proceedings railroads reasonable receive recover damages risk salary statistics statute subscriber sum equal superior court take effect thereof tion total disability unless weekly payment wholly dependent widow
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Page 236 - The notice may also be served by post by a registered letter addressed to the person on whom it is to be served at his last known place of residence or place of business...
Page 259 - President, upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause. (b) A vacancy in the Board shall not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the Board, and two members of the Board shall, at all times, constitute a quorum.
Page 221 - The loss of the first phalange of the thumb, or of any finger, shall be considered to be equal to the loss of onehalf of such thumb, or finger, and compensation shall be one-half the amounts above specified.
Page 107 - It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 260 - In case of disobedience on the part of any person or persons to comply with any order of the commission or any commissioner or any subpoena, or on the refusal of any witness to testify to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, it shall be the duty of the circuit court •of any county, or the judge thereof, on application of a commissioner, to compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from...
Page 213 - ... where total or partial incapacity for work results from the injury, a weekly payment during the incapacity after the second week not exceeding fifty per cent of his average weekly earnings during the previous twelve months, if he has been so long employed, but if not, then for any less period during which he has been in the employment of the same employer, such weekly payment not to exceed one pound.
Page 216 - An act to promote the welfare of the people of this state, relating to the liability of employers for injuries or death sustained by their employes, providing...
Page 278 - Where the injury for which compensation is payable under this Act was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer...
Page 238 - ... would have been liable to pay if that workman had been immediately employed by him, and where compensation is claimed from or proceedings are taken against the principal, then, in the application of this act...
Page 243 - An act to provide for the recovery of damages in cases where the death of a person is caused by wrongful act, neglect or default," approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the amendments thereof and supplements thereto.