To Amend the United States Employees' Compensation Act: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7041. March 5, 1924 |
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1st sess 39 Stat 64th Cong accidental infection act of September addition to injury addition to section administrative officer Attorney authorized BRUEGGEMAN CHAIRMAN claim presented committee compensation act Compensation Commission compensation fund compensation law definition determine disability or death disbursing officer disease proximately caused duty of administering DYER employment enactment existing law favor February 28 Federal employees final finding of facts fixed in point Gettinger glanders Government GRAHAM hearings House of Representatives immediate superior include occupational diseases infection in line injury by accident January 29 Judiciary lead poisoning legislation line of duty Massachusetts Supreme Court MONTAGUE opinion performance of duty ployee pneumonia present act present law proposed amendment purpose questions arising reference resulting from disease review the award section 28 serial 16 suggested T. N. T. poisoning term injury term occupational disease term personal injury tion tuberculosis Typhus United States Employees VAILE valid words personal injury
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Page 6 - That the notice shall state the name and address of the employee, the year, month, day, and hour when and the particular locality where the injury occurred, and the cause and nature of the Injury, and shall be signed by and contain the address of the person giving the notice.
Page 8 - Compensation when awarded shall be paid from the employees' compensation fund. SEC. 37. That if the original claim for compensation has been made within the time specified in section twenty, the commission may, at any time, on its own motion or on application, review the award, and, in accordance with the facts found on such review, may end, diminish, or increase the compensation previously awarded, or, if compensation has been refused or discontinued, award compensation.
Page 5 - compensation" includes the money allowance payable to an employee or his dependents and any other benefits paid for...
Page 1 - Commissioner's decisions. The finding of facts in and the decision of the Commissioner upon the merits of any claim presented under or authorized by this section shall, in the absence of fraud or mistake in mathematical calculation, be final and not subject to revision by any accounting officer.
Page 2 - Compensation Commission provided for in section twenty-eight. The term " physician " includes surgeons. The term " monthly pay '' shall be taken to refer to the monthly pay at the time of the injury.
Page 2 - States shall pay compensation as hereinafter specified for the disability or death of an employee resulting from a personal injury sustained while in the performance of his duty...
Page 1 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 6 - That every employee injured in the performance of his duty, or some one on his behalf, shall, within forty-eight hours after the injury, give written notice thereof to the immediate superior of the employee. Such notice shall be given by delivering it personally or by depositing it properly stamped and addressed in the mail.
Page 7 - SIB: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 26th ultimo, with inclosure, requesting my opinion as to the right of the Employees' Compensation Commission to construe the term " personal injury " In the compensation act to include occupational disease.
Page 2 - commission" shall be taken to refer to the United States Employees' Compensation Commission provided for in section twenty-eight. The term "physician" includes surgeons. The term "monthly pay" shall be taken to refer to the monthly pay at the time of the injury.