Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 1981: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 1182 ... |
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Page 263 - An individual shall be considered to be disabled for purposes of this title if he is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months...
Page 512 - employer" means any employer any of whose employees are employed in maritime employment in whole or in part, upon the navigable waters of the United States (including any adjoining pier, wharf, dry dock, terminal, building way, marine railway, or other adjoining area customarily used by an employer in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel.
Page 673 - In any proceeding for the enforcement of a claim for compensation under this chapter, it shall be presumed in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary 1. That the claim comes within the provisions of this chapter; 2.
Page 1229 - Disability" means incapacity because of injury to earn the wages which the employee was receiving at the time of injury in the same or any other employment.
Page 393 - The time for filing a claim shall not begin to run until the employee or beneficiary is aware, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have been aware, of the relationship between the injury or death and the employment.
Page 673 - injury" means accidental injury or death arising out of and in the course of employment, and such occupational disease or infection as arises naturally out of such employment or as naturally or unavoidably results from such accidental injury, and includes an injury caused by the willful act of a third person directed against an employee because of his employment.
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Page 675 - March 4, 1927, including all amendments that may hereafter be made thereto, shall apply in respect to the injury or death of an employee of an employer carrying on any employment in the District of Columbia, irrespective of the place where the injury or death occurs; except that in applying such provisions the term "employer" shall be held to mean every person carrying on any employment in the District of Columbia, and the term "employee" shall be held to mean every employee of any such person.
Page 254 - ... (2) An officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof or of any State or foreign government, or of any political subdivision thereof. (b) No compensation shall be payable if the injury was occasioned solely by the intoxication of the employee or by the willful intention of the employee to injure or kill himself or another.
Page 390 - I have discussed the matter have quite readily conceded to me that what Is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander...