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Compensation, Commodification, And Disablement: How Law Has Dehumanized Laboring Bodies And Excluded Nonlaboring Humans, Karen M. Tani

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. by Nate Holdren.

Appellate Division, Third Department, Novara Ex Rel. Jones V. Cantor Fitzgerald, Lp, Kerri Grzymala

Touro Law Review

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Admiralty-Maintenance And Cure, Donald S. Leeper S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The recent decision of Warren v. United States marks another instance of the growing interest of the Supreme Court in the remedies given injured seamen. The right of the seaman to maintenance and cure can be found in the earliest formulations of a law of the sea and is present in our admiralty law today. The ancient terminology is still used but the tendency is to construe the language liberally in favor of the seaman.

This comment is intended as a short survey of the development of the remedy in this country as represented by the landmark cases. It will …

Admiralty - Workmen's Compensation - Longshoremen's Act Status Of Worker On Vessel Withdrawn From Navigation But Moving On Navigable Waters, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff and five others were hired to load a lake freighter with cargo for winter storage. They were hired by the day and none lived aboard the vessel, which had been out of commission for a year. Plaintiff assisted in towing the vessel to the elevator dock and worked on deck while the cargo was being loaded. While shifting the vessel along the dock, plaintiff's hand was crushed in a winch. Plaintiff brought an action at law under the Jones Act. Held, plaintiff is not a seaman within the terms of that act, nor "a member of a crew" …

Workmen's Compensation-Right Of Dole Employee To Compensation

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff, a citizen on the relief rolls of the defendant city, was put to work in accordance with a scrip relief plan under which persons receiving aid were "required" to work if they were able. They were paid a stipulated amount of script per hour, which was exchangeable for goods at the city store. The plaintiff was injured while using a wheelbarrow in line of duty in so working in the city park, and claimed the right to workmen's compensation under the statute as an employee of the city. The court held, by a five-to-three division, that the …

Master And Servant-Tests Of Independent Contract

Michigan Law Review

The claimant was employed by a dairy company to sell and deliver milk along a defined route, his "payment being in the form of a commission on each bottle sold. He was required to make daily payments in cash for milk and cream sold, but had the privilege of returning unsold milk or cream at the end of each day. Horses and vehicles were hired from the company at a stated price per day. Claimant was injured by a fall from his wagon while making deliveries. The State Industrial Board held him to be a servant and awarded him workmen's …

The Money Value Of A Man

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE MONEY VALUE OF A MAN By Louis I. Dublin and Alfred J. Lotka.

Workmen's Compensation-Injuries Arising Out Of Employment

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.