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Full-Text Articles in Workers' Compensation Law
Radiation Injury In Workmen's Compensation, Richard E. Hendricks
Radiation Injury In Workmen's Compensation, Richard E. Hendricks
Cleveland State Law Review
Whether because of expanded uses of the fruits of the nuclear age, or because of more insights into radiation caused diseases, in years to come more employees are likely to find themselves filing claims for workmen's compensation because of alleged radiation-caused diseases or illnesses. What are radiation diseases and injuries? Which occupations are likely to give rise to radiation exposure? Do present workmen's compensation laws provide coverage for such injuries and diseases, and to what extent? How is a claim processed? Can the present laws be improved, and what efforts are being made-or should be made-to im-prove them?
Workmen's Compensation Legislative Trends Throughout The Country, Alfred A. Porro Jr.
Workmen's Compensation Legislative Trends Throughout The Country, Alfred A. Porro Jr.
Cleveland State Law Review
Any attempt to comprehensively analyze the voluminous and detailed Workmen's Compensation and Industrial Employee legislation throughout the United States awakens one to the vast scope of ourmindustrial society. The magnitude of progress in this field dominates all other considerations of this survey, designed to show what aspects of these laws are in the throes of legislative revision, with emphasis on advances in vocational rehabilitation, coverage of public employees, and expansion of occupational disease classifications. This survey encompasses not only legislative revisions, repeals and amendments proposed or pending before State lawmakers, but attempts a preview of future activity.