[PDF] Top 20 Chapter 5: Workmen's Compensation Law

... Although the doctor in the principal case was, unable to pinpoint the date on which the disc had ruptured, and the employee had ceased work because he was laid off, the cou[r] ... See full document

... Workmen's Compensation SMU Law Review Volume 4 Issue 3 Survey of Southwestern Law for 1949 Article 19 1950 Workmen's Compensation T Michael Kostos Follow this and additional works at https //scholar s[.] ... See full document

... The Court considered questions of first impression in five cases: whether a wife can receive payment for nursing services rendered an injured husband;l whether the [r] ... See full document

... member pursuant to section 7, the insurer was ordered to pay, in rela- tion to the husband's injury, compensation benefits to the husband and dependency benefits for the wife a[r] ... See full document

... Thus, the Eisner Court read section 15 to require a deceased employee's dependents to pay certain proceeds received in personal injury and wrongful death claims to the workmen[r] ... See full document

... an issue that had not been raised before the single member./d. The court noted that to preserve a question for appeal, the issue can be raised either before the single memb[r] ... See full document

... A reasonable argument could be made that the Court should have held that, as the receipt of benefits for the 400-week period does not depend upon need, and as there[r] ... See full document

... A good case can be made, based upon a respectable body of estab· lished case law, for the proposition that the Industrial Accident Board is not warranted in disrega[r] ... See full document

... But, Justice Counihan contended, the evidence would warrant a finding that there was an underlying general rela- tionship of employer-employee and therefore the cas[r] ... See full document

... The Supreme Judicial Court, in affirming the decision of the board, pointed out that the insurer did not make a physical examination of the employee until nearly eight mont[r] ... See full document

... The Court pointed out 10 that this strict nine-month limitation is not as onerous as it might appear since the insurer may bring its third-party action once cla[r] ... See full document

... It is submitted that Section 36A of our Massachusetts act is the logical extension, to a certain class of widows, of an arbitrary principle of extra compensation payment[r] ... See full document

... personal injury claims. Furthermore, it impacts with undue harshness on employees who must forego their common law rights against their employers.8o Finally, it overlooks [r] ... See full document

... Workmen's Compensation SMU Law Review Volume 3 Issue 3 Survey of Texas Law for the Year 1948 Article 14 1949 Workmen's Compensation Elizabeth Gann Follow this and additional works at https //scholar s[.] ... See full document

... Workmen's Compensation SMU Law Review Volume 5 Issue 3 Survey of Southwestern Law for 1950 Article 16 1951 Workmen's Compensation Robert L Wright Follow this and additional works at https //scholar sm[.] ... See full document

... Hardware Mutual Casualty Co.1 had in the late 1960's annually obtained permission from the Commissioner of Insurance to deviate from rates established by the appr[r] ... See full document

... Riordan's Case in f: ct held that the ar- tificial force of a presumption or of prima facie evidence, compelli a finding, disap- pears when the evidence warrants a finding[r] ... See full document

... 14 In a situation even more analogous to the present case, the Court upheld an award of compensation to an employee of a newsstand company injured in the parking l[r] ... See full document

... for funeral benefits. Personal Injury Arising out of Employment: Suicide Resulting from Acute Psychotic Reaction to Dramatic Work Incident: Wear and Tear Distinguish[r] ... See full document

... Antobenedetto, tried without a jury in superior court, moved to suppress the evidence seized during the warrantless search of the au- tomobile. The trial judge denie[r] ... See full document