State Workmen's Compensation Laws: A Comparison of Major Provisions with Recommended Standards |
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45 percent 50 percent 663 Duration 663 Widowhood actual wage average wage average weekly wage BENEFIT FOR TEMPORARY BENEFITS FOR PERMANENT chil dependent child dren until 18.3 Duration of disability employer employment Employment Standards Administration end of table footnotes at end Full Medical Benefits HAWAII ALASKA HAWAII TEX IDAHO WYO CALIF injured worker MASS R.I. CONN MAXIMUM BENEFITS Maximum percentage MAXIMUM WEEKLY BENEFIT MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM MINN OREG WIS MISS ALA net wage North Carolina North Dakota number of dependents NUMERICAL EXEMPTIONS occupational diseases OHIO ILL paid partial disability Payments per week percent of 85 percent of State's percentage of wages period of disability permanent total disability RATIO OF MAXIMUM REHABILITATION DIVISION Rhode Island S.C. ARIZ ARK State's average weekly subsequent injury fund temporary total disability thereafter total disability benefit wage if less waiting period week Minimum Maximum weekly wage $78 workmen's compensation agency workmen's compensation laws
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Сторінка 44 - Loss of both hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both legs, or both eyes, or of any two thereof shall, in the absence of conclusive proof to the contrary, constitute permanent total disability.
Сторінка 2 - An elective act is one in which the employer has the option of either accepting or rejecting the act, but in case he rejects it he loses the customary common law defenses — assumed risk of the employment, negligence of fellow servants, and contributory negligence.
Сторінка 2 - They vary as to type of law, coverage, amounts of benefits paid, insurance requirements, and administrative procedures. Workmen's compensation laws may be classified as compulsory or elective. Under a compulsory act, every employer subject to it is required to comply with its provisions for the compensation of work injuries. An elective act...
Сторінка 39 - In case the total disability begins after a period of partial disability, the period of partial disability shall be deducted from such total period of three hundred and twelve weeks.
Сторінка 18 - This Association recognizes that the ultimate aim of the compensation process is to return an injured workman to a job as quickly as possible with a minimum of permanent disability. In order to achieve this objective the administrative agency must be given responsibility by statute to supervise and control medical care. This principle is now recognized by the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association through the Council on Industrial Health.
Сторінка 24 - ... the employee has knowledge of the nature of his disability and its relation to his job and until after disablement.
Сторінка 32 - RATIO OF MAXIMUM WEEKLY BENEFITS TO AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES Most of the laws base cash benefits on varying percentages of average weekly wages received by the worker, usually 66% percent. However, workers do not as a rule actually receive the amount indicated by the percentages because most laws also set a dollar limitation on the payments. This means that the worker may receive less than the statutory percentage. Only five jurisdictions provide maximum weekly benefits equal to at least two-thirds of...
Сторінка 32 - To provide a maximum weekly benefit rate which will be sufficient to allow an injured worker and his dependents to maintain a standard of living above the subsistence level. "To achieve this objective, the maximum weekly benefit should be equal to at least 66% percent of the State's average weekly wage.
Сторінка 44 - Federal employees: Based on 75 percent of the pay of specified grade levels in the Federal civil service.
Сторінка 44 - North Carolina: The 400 weeks and $12,000 do not apply in cases of permanent total disability resulting from an injury to the brain or spinal cord or from loss of mental capacity caused by an injury to the brain. " Rhode Island: After 1,000 weeks, or after $16,000 has been paid, payments to be made from secondinjury fund for period of disability. The allowance of up to $12.00 a week for dependent children Is also payable from this fund.