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Admiralty - Workmen's Compensation - Longshoremen's Act Status Of Worker On Vessel Withdrawn From Navigation But Moving On Navigable Waters, Michigan Law Review Nov 1940

Admiralty - Workmen's Compensation - Longshoremen's Act Status Of Worker On Vessel Withdrawn From Navigation But Moving On Navigable Waters, Michigan Law Review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-Constitutionality Of A Statute Imposing Liability Without Fault On Non-Contributing Employers [Prager V. V. H. Chapman & Sons Co., W. Va. 1940]. Sep 1940

Workmen's Compensation-Constitutionality Of A Statute Imposing Liability Without Fault On Non-Contributing Employers [Prager V. V. H. Chapman & Sons Co., W. Va. 1940].

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Workmen's Compensation--Effective Date Of Modification Of Award, A. A. A. Jun 1940

Workmen's Compensation--Effective Date Of Modification Of Award, A. A. A.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Washington Workmen's Compensation Act From The Employers' Viewpoint, Lowell P. Mickelwait Apr 1940

The Washington Workmen's Compensation Act From The Employers' Viewpoint, Lowell P. Mickelwait

Washington Law Review

Although this state has had a workmen's compensation act since 1911, the employers generally have, until recently, paid but slight attention to the administration of the act. They have proceeded on the theory that the accident experience of the particular employer had little or no relation to the amount of contributions required to be made by that employer under the act. The situation is very different today. Every well-advised employer now realizes that, in the long run, his industrial insurance premiums will tend to approximate the cost of the accidents occurring in his own plant. By the maintenance of high …


Workmen's Compensation--Death Benefit Awards To Partial And Total Dependents, R. A. P. Apr 1940

Workmen's Compensation--Death Benefit Awards To Partial And Total Dependents, R. A. P.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Workmen's Compensation - Federal Employers' Liability Act - Employment In Interstate Commerce, Michigan Law Review Mar 1940

Workmen's Compensation - Federal Employers' Liability Act - Employment In Interstate Commerce, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff was an employee of the Boston Terminal Company, defendant, which owned and operated the South Station in Boston. The general employment of the plaintiff consisted of the handling of mail for both interstate and intrastate transportation. He was ordered to load three mail sacks, which included letters from outside the state but the destination of which was wholly within the state, on a train which traveled entirely within the state. While returning to the mail room after loading the three sacks, the plaintiff was injured when the truck he was driving overturned due to his lack of experience in …


Procedure To Secure Benefits Under The Workmen's Compensation Act, John Geisness Jan 1940

Procedure To Secure Benefits Under The Workmen's Compensation Act, John Geisness

Washington Law Review

The Workmen's Compensation Act establishes funds for the payment of benefits to workmen injured in certain industries, and to their widows and children in the event of death. It also defines a procedure for the assertion of the right to such benefits. Under that procedure, the Department of Labor and Industries is vested with original jurisdiction over all claims. The courts are strictly limited to review of questions already passed upon by the Department unless the Department is acting outside of the jurisdiction conferred upon it. The legislature itself may not override the statutory procedure and appropriate money from one …


The Maryland Occupational Disease Law, J. Nicholas Shriver Jr Jan 1940

The Maryland Occupational Disease Law, J. Nicholas Shriver Jr

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Workmen's Compensation--What Is A Compensable Disease?, J. Paul Curry Jan 1940

Workmen's Compensation--What Is A Compensable Disease?, J. Paul Curry

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.