Workmen's Compensation: Report Upon Operation of State Laws. Investigation by Commission of the American Federation of Labor and the National Civic Federation |
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Page 99 - In all other cases questions of dependency, in whole or in part, shall be determined in accordance with the fact, as the fact may be at the time of the injury...
Page 23 - ... without regard to fault as a cause thereof, except where the injury is occasioned by the willful intention of the injured employee to bring about the injury or death of himself or of another, or where the injury results solely from the intoxication of the injured employee while on duty...
Page 125 - ... served by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post, and in proving the service of such notice it shall be sufficient to prove that the notice was properly addressed and registered.
Page 82 - Loss of both hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both legs, or both eyes, or of any two thereof shall, in the absence of conclusive proof to the contrary, constitute permanent total disability.
Page 83 - That in no case shall the amount received for more than one finger exceed the amount provided in this schedule for the loss of a hand...
Page 116 - By § 50, each employer is required to secure compensation to his employees in one of the following ways: (1) by insuring and keeping insured the payment of such compensation in the state fund...
Page 137 - Where any weekly payment has been continued for not less than six months...
Page 79 - Permanent partial disability means the loss of either one foot, one leg, one hand, one arm, one eye, one or more fingers, one or more toes, any dislocation where ligaments are severed, or any other injury Known in surgery to be permanent partial disability.
Page 99 - The following persons shall be conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent for support upon a deceased employee : — (a) A wife upon a husband with whom she lives at the time of his death.
Page 102 - A child or children under the age of eighteen years (or over said age, but physically or mentally incapacitated from earning), upon the parent with whom he...