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The following year, Campbell unsuccessfully tried to allow police dispatchers to claim hypertension or heart disease as occupational diseases eligible for workmen’s compensation.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022
“They wanted to keep them on the job until retirement to preclude the high cost of workmen’s compensation payouts and didn’t tell them.”
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022
Workers who get sick on the job might not be able to sue their employers, but would have access to workmen’s compensation to cover lost wages and medical care, legal experts said.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2020
This was the movement for compulsory health insurance, which overlapped with the public health movement, but was more in the spirit of some of the Progressive Era reforms that were successful, like workmen’s compensation.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2020
He made out a long list of fire premiums and drew his check for their full amount, plus the workmen's compensation premium in his possession.
From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell
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