Workmen's Compensation for the District of Columbia: Hearings Before..., 84-2, March 7 and 8, 1955 |
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administration amended amount applicable average weekly wages award BIEMILLER BIERWAGEN bill Bureau carrier centum CHADWICK Chairman child claim claimant committee compensation benefits compensation order Congress cost DAWES death benefits deceased Department of Labor dependent husband deputy commissioner district court District government District of Columbia earnings employment entitled to compensation exceed Federal act filed Harbor Workers hearing HYDE industry injured employee injury or death JOHN BELL WILLIAMS jurisdiction legislation liability Longshoremen's Act Longshoremen's and Harbor loss of consortium Maryland maximum medical and death ment notice O'HARA OLIN E Oren Harris paid partial disability party payable payment of compensation pensation person entitled present act present law proceedings reason represent respect SCHMUCK SPENCER statement statute of limitations subcommittee subdivision surviving wife thereof third person trial de novo United WALKER Washington week WEST Workmen's Compensation Act workmen's compensation law
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Page 3 - The liability of an employer prescribed in section 4 shall be exclusive and in place of all other liability of such employer to the employee, his legal representative, husband or wife, parents, dependents, next of kin, and anyone otherwise entitled to recover damages from such employer at law or in admiralty on account of such injury or death...
Page 7 - ... 1. If the injured employee shall have worked in the employment in which he was working at the time of the accident, whether for the same employer or not, during substantially the whole of the year immediately preceding his injury, his average annual earnings shall consist of three hundred times the average daily wage or salary which he shall have earned in such employment during the days when so employed ; 2.
Page 11 - The board shall have full power and authority to hear and determine all questions within its jurisdiction, and its decision thereon shall be final.
Page 20 - If any provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provisions to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 13 - Upon its own motion or upon the application of any party in interest, on the ground of a change in conditions, the commission may at any time review any award, and, on such review, may make an award ending, diminishing or increasing the compensation previously awarded...
Page 7 - ... whom the employee has supported, either wholly or in part, for the period of one year prior to the date of the accident, and except that the commission may, at its option, or upon the application of the insurance carrier, shall, commute all future installments of compensation to be paid to such aliens, by paying or causing to be paid to them one-half of the commuted amount of such future installments of compensation as determined by the commission.
Page 4 - ... unless he shall have requested the employer to furnish the same and the employer shall have refused or neglected to do so, or unless the nature of the injury required such treatment and services and the employer or his superintendent or foreman having knowledge of such injury shall have neglected to provide the same...
Page 3 - ... except that if an employer fails to secure payment of compensation as required by this chapter, an injured employee, or his legal representative in case death results from the injury, may elect to claim compensation under this chapter, or to maintain an action at law or in admiralty for damages on account of such injury or death.
Page 5 - ... of this section respectively and shall be paid to the employee, as follows: (1) Arm lost, three hundred and twelve weeks
Page 6 - Provided, however, That in addition to compensation for such permanent partial disability, and after the cessation of the payments for the prescribed period of weeks, the employee shall be paid the remainder of the compensation that would be due for permanent total disability. Such additional compensation shall be paid out of the special fund established in section 944 of this title.