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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
An excellent historical account of the workmen's compensation idea is by A.F.
From The United States Since the Civil War by Lingley, Charles Ramsdell
In 1972, President Richard Nixon’s National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws declared that the states’ programs were, “in general, inadequate and inequitable.”
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2015
Last month, in a landmark ruling affecting a teacher, a California Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board decided that Larosa had "sustained injury arising out of his employment."
From Time Magazine Archive
Although he was clearly hurt in the line of duty for his fellow man, the Workmen's Compensation Commission turned down his claim for benefits.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Franklin Roosevelt introduced him at Denton, Md. last week as the "father" of Social Security, Workmen's Compensation and Parcel Post, the President barely sketched his works.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is certainly not putting it too strongly to say that the judicial body, speaking generally, did not love the Workmen’s Compensation Act.
From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott
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