Report of Commission Appointed by Governor M.E. Hay to Investigate the Problems of Industrial Accidents and to Draft a Bill on the Subject of Employes' Compensation to be Submitted to the 1911 Session of the Washington LegislatureE.L. Boardman, public printer, 1910 - 48 páginas |
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accident fund administration admiralty law age of sixteen aid fund amount appeal application beneficiary burden cause of action cent child or children CLARENCE PARKER Coal commission commissioners common law comparative negligence compensation constitution of Washington contract contribution contributory negligence created death results decision due process employer and employe employment enacted engaged erwise ESCHEN exceed exercise expenses extra hazardous fellow servant doctrine fourteenth amendment HENRETTY Illinois injured employe injured workman injury or death invalid JAMES ANDERSON jury trial legislative power legislature Linn County lump sum payment machinery Missouri Pacific monthly payment operation otherwise specified paid payable payroll plant ployer police power premium process of law proposed act protection Railroad Co railroad companies Railway receive regulations remedy repeal right of action rule schedule statute abolishing statute imposing liability statute making railroad supra Supreme Court thereof tion treasurer validity vested right widow
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Página 43 - But neither the amendment — broad and comprehensive as it is — nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people...
Página 10 - That if the injury to a workman occurring away from the plant of his employer is due to the negligence or wrong of another not in the same employ...
Página 27 - The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth and of the subjects of the same.
Página 27 - This police power of the state extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the state.
Página 39 - A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations.
Página 28 - But the possession and enjoyment of all rights are subject to such reasonable conditions as may be deemed by the governing authority of the country essential to the safety, health, peace, good order, and morals of the community.
Página 8 - The state of Washington, therefore, exercising herein its police and sovereign power, declares that all phases of the premises are withdrawn from private controversy...
Página 28 - Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the state, sometimes termed its "police power," to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the state, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Página 10 - ... years, daughter, between sixteen and eighteen years of age, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, step-father, step-mother, grandson, granddaughter, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister, half-sister, half-brother, niece, nephew, who, at the time of the accident, are dependent, in whole or in part, for their support upon the earnings of the workman.
Página 13 - ... or his family or dependents in case of death of the workman, shall receive out of the accident fund compensation in accordance with the following schedule, and except as in this act otherwise provided, such payment shall be in lieu of any and all rights of action whatsoever against any person whomsoever.