The Federal Employers' Liability Act

PTSD in railroad drivers under the Federal employers' liability act.

Railroad and subway drivers can experience psychological trauma when trains strike or nearly miss other trains, motor vehicles, or persons or become instruments of death. Derailments, collisions, and suicides on the tracks can induce feelings of helplessness, horror, guilt, and anxiety in the drivers. Although some drivers experience acute stress disorder (ASD) or post-traumatic stress disorder...

Review of Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance

Employers’ Liability andWorkers’ Compensation: England andWales

1 An employee injured at work in the UK is able to claim not only no-fault social security benefit from the state under the industrial injuries compensation scheme, but also damages from the employer if liability in tort can be established. Use of one system of compensation does not lead to exclusion from the other; there is no ‘employer privilege’ preventing an employee claiming from both work...

Recent developments in workers' compensation and employers' liability law.

The Federal Hazardous Substances Labeling Act.

BOUT 10 years ago when the Committee on Accident Prevention was created, the Academy focused national attention on accidents as the No. 1 cause of death in childhood and a major contributor to disability, disfigurement and crippling. One of the most spectacular features of this Committee’s program is its efforts to prevent and treat poisoning in children, as demonstrated by the amazing growth o...