Workmen's Compensation.

Analysis of experience in workmen's compensation for heart cases. Factors influencing the decision re compensability in heart attacks occurring among industrial workers.

ALTHOUGH heart disease was not within the purview of the original Workmen's Compensation laws, it has become an important cause of claims under Workmen's Compensation statutes. These statutes are usually rather specific as to the definition of noncardiac "injuries," since most occurrences at work are clearly defined as to nature and time, and also as to the effects of fractures, lacerations, an...

Analysis of Experience in Workmen's Compensation for Heart Cases

ALTHOUGH heart disease was not within the purview of the original Workmen's Compensation laws, it has become an important cause of claims under Workmen's Compensation statutes. These statutes are usually rather specific as to the definition of noncardiac "injuries," since most occurrences at work are clearly defined as to nature and time, and also as to the effects of fractures, lacerations, an...

Accidental Injuries: The Medico-Legal Aspects of Workmen's Compensation and Public Liability

Workmen's Compensation: Its Medical Aspect

The compensation of workmen for ' accident' during the course or as a result of occupation is thirty-six years old in England. Like many other enactments of this nature, its apparent initial simplicity is a delusion, and some of the legal, medico-legal, and medical aspects are vague and indeterminate. The words 'by accident' occur in various sections of the Act, but are nowhere defined. It requ...

Wage-Risk Premiums and Workmen's Compensation: A Refinement of Estimates of Compensating Wage-Differential

;. Current thought is that the most appropriate method for determining the value of life or of reduced risk of injury is through estimation of a revealed market value individuals place on risk. That theory assumes that risk is transacted in the market in the form of wage premiums workers receive for engaging in higher risk jobs. Hedonic price estimation techniques have been used to estimate tha...