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2-3 per cent accident insurance adopted amendment amount ance Arthur St assessment average weekly wages benefit bill Board of Awards burden caused by industrial claims for compensation collective insurance common law compensation for industrial compensation for injuries COMPENSATION FUNDS compulsory constitutional contributory negligence courts damages death disability distal phalange earning economic employer and employe employment enacted expense fault fellow servant finger fixed George Sutherland Germany industrial accidents industrial injuries injured employe injured workman injuries caused insurance company insurance department insurance fund insurance written jury level premium Liability Board limit litigation losses caused malingering ment method mutual company negligence Ohio State Liability paid panies payment personal injury ployer ployes profits proposition reinsurance remedy result risk safeguard Section secure statutory compensation statutory law surance taxpayers tion trade union United States Senator Workmen's Collective workmen's compensation act Workmen's Compensation Insurance Workmen's Compensation Law Zealand
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Page 78 - 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. In all other cases permanent total disability shall be determined in accordance with the facts.
Page 79 - The following persons shall be conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent for support upon a deceased employe: — (a) A wife upon a husband with whom she lives at the time of his death.
Page 42 - ... 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...
Page 77 - The loss of the first phalange of any toe shall be considered to be equal to the loss of one-half of such toe, and compensation shall be one-half of the amount above specified.
Page 78 - In case the injury causes death within the period of two years the benefits shall be in the amounts and to the persons following: 1.
Page 79 - 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 20 - Laws may be passed fixing and regulating the hours of labor, establishing a minimum wage, and providing for the comfort, health, safety and general welfare of all employes ; and no other provision of the constitution shall impair or limit this power.
Page 21 - For the purpose of providing compensation to workmen and their dependents, for death, injuries or occupational disease, occasioned in the course of such workmen's employment, laws may be passed...
Page 79 - The benefits in case of death shall be paid to such one or more of the dependents of the decedent, for the benefit of all the dependents as may be determined by the board, which may apportion the benefits among the dependents in such manner as it may deem just and equitable.
Page 86 - Laws may be passed to secure mechanics, artisans, laborers, subcontractors and material men, their just dues by direct lien upon the property, upon which they have bestowed labor or for which they have furnished material.