. Labor problems and labor legislation . egularity of employment, those evils would berapidly reduced. This prophecy has alreadybeen strikingly fulfilled with regard to accidents. Workmen s Compensation for Accidents Accidents are spectacular. They occur at adefinite time, and responsibility can usually befixed. Probably for these reasons the first formof social insurance to be extensively developed inthe United States was workmens compensationfor industrial accidents. Before the introduction of workmens compen-sation laws the injured employee could recoverfor his suffering, maimi
. Labor problems and labor legislation . egularity of employment, those evils would berapidly reduced. This prophecy has alreadybeen strikingly fulfilled with regard to accidents. Workmen s Compensation for Accidents Accidents are spectacular. They occur at adefinite time, and responsibility can usually befixed. Probably for these reasons the first formof social insurance to be extensively developed inthe United States was workmens compensationfor industrial accidents. Before the introduction of workmens compen-sation laws the injured employee could recoverfor his suffering, maiming, loss of earnings, andexpense of medical treatment only by suing hisemployer in a court of law. As such action waslikely to mean discharge, few employees soughttheir legal remedy unless the injury were verysevere and the expected indemnity correspond-ingly large. If a case was brought to court, the employersought shelter behind a number of traditionallegal defenses. One was the fellow servant [in] LABOR PROBLEMS AND LABOR LEGISLATION. - ?.? Xo Compensation Laws. [•.] Compensation Law, but no State ^~ Fund. I I Compensation Law, with State Fund WORKMENS COMPENSATION LAWSJULY i, 1922In addition, Hawaii and Porto Rico, and the federal govern-ment for its own employees have compensation laws. rule, by which it was frequently held that someother workman, not the employer, was respon-sible for the injury. Since most employees now-a-days work in large groups, this was very oftenthe case, and the injured workman lost his defense of the employers was contribu-tory negligence, which meant that the victim [112] SOCIAL INSURANCE of the accident had brought it on himself bysome want of care, however slight. Finally, theemployer might claim immunity under the prin-ciple of assumption of risk. According to thisprinciple the workman by accepting employmenttook upon himself all the customary hazards ofthe occupation, and also any extraordinary riskof which he became aware, but
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