Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Workers' Compensation Law Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Legislation

Institution
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type

Articles 331 - 336 of 336

Full-Text Articles in Workers' Compensation Law

Workmen's Compensation Legislative Trends Throughout The Country, Alfred A. Porro Jr. Jan 1968

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.

Go to article

Admiralty - Death On The High Seas Act - Effect On Workmen's Compensation Recoveries, Thomas E. Kauper S.Ed. Mar 1959

Admiralty - Death On The High Seas Act - Effect On Workmen's Compensation Recoveries, Thomas E. Kauper S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Decedent, aboard an airliner in his capacity as flight service supervisor, was killed when the plane crashed into the Pacific. Respondent airlines, decedent's employer, filed an application with the California Industrial Accident Commission to determine its liability under the California Workmen's Compensation Act. The commission awarded decedent's widow a death benefit despite the widow's objection to the commission's jurisdiction. Prior to the award the widow as administratrix of decedent's estate initiated this action under the Death on the High Seas Act (DHSA) in admiralty. On motion for summary judgment in respondent's favor, held, motion granted. DHSA is applicable to …

Go to article

Atoms And The Law, E. Blythe Stason, Samuel D. Estep, William J. Pierce Jan 1959

Atoms And The Law, E. Blythe Stason, Samuel D. Estep, William J. Pierce

Books

Early in 1951 a group of interested members of the faculty of The University of Michigan Law School conceived the idea of a research project, the purpose of which would be to investigate the principal unique legal problems being created and likely to be created in the future by peaceful uses of atomic energy. The group planned the preparation and publication of a series of manuscripts which might ultimately emerge as one or more printed volumes dealing with the legal problems affecting this new form of energy. Many phases of the subject were scrutinized, including the rule-making and licensing powers …

Go to article

Workmen's Compensation - Federal Employers' Liability Act - Coverage Under 1939 Amendment, Robert J. Hoerner May 1957

Workmen's Compensation - Federal Employers' Liability Act - Coverage Under 1939 Amendment, Robert J. Hoerner

Michigan Law Review

In 1956 the Supreme Court handed down two decisions interpreting the 1939 Amendment to the Federal Employers' Liability Act which substantially extended the act's coverage. The purpose of this short comment is to examine this extension and its impact on the perennial controversy between advocates of the FELA on the one hand and workmen's compensation on the other.

Go to article

Workmen's Compensation Act-Occupational Disease Mar 1933

Workmen's Compensation Act-Occupational Disease

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Note And Comment, Edgar N. Durfee, Cyril E. Bailey, Edwin B. Stason, William C. O'Keefe, Clyde Y. Morris Apr 1922

Note And Comment, Edgar N. Durfee, Cyril E. Bailey, Edwin B. Stason, William C. O'Keefe, Clyde Y. Morris

Michigan Law Review

The Basis of Relief from Penalties and Forfeitures - The equitable principle of relief from penalties and forfeitures is so far elementary as almost to defy analysis. Many, perhaps most, of the judicial explanations of the principle have based it upon interpretation or construction, appealing to the doctrine that equity regards intent rather than form. Yet a logical application of this doctrine would lead to results very different from those which have actually been arrived at in the decisions. Thus, a stipulation in a mortgage that the mortgagor waives his equity of redemption can hardly be interpreted as meaning that …

Go to article

First Prev