Hearing on H.R. 1173 and H.R. 1999: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health, and Safety of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Fresno, CA, September 15, 1993 |
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Page 357 - The ultimate social philosophy behind compensation liability is belief in the wisdom of providing, in the most efficient, most dignified and most certain form, financial and medical benefits for the victims of work-connected injuries...
Page 184 - PROFILE The American Insurance Association is a full-service trade organization of casualty insurance companies. In its present form, the association combines three earlier organizations. One of those, the former National Board of Fire Underwriters, was organized in 1866, making it one of the oldest trade associations in the nation. The various departments provide members with up-to-date intelligence on legislative, regulatory, judicial and technical developments relating to our industry. The AIA...
Page 3 - Medical 5 Device Amendments of 1975". 6 (b) Unless otherwise specified, whenever in this Act an 7 amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment 8 to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the section...
Page 358 - This is part of the quid pro quo in which the sacrifices and gains of employees and employers are to some extent put in balance, for, while the employer assumes a new liability without fault, he is relieved of the prospect of large damage verdicts.
Page 184 - ... industry groups and media — supplying information and assistance on issues of mutual concern. A countrywide system of regional offices and local legislative counsel ensures prompt and rigorous attention to casualty insurance matters. At the same time, technical specialists from disciplines as diverse as law, economics and engineering educate members and outside publics on developments that may affect the industry and its services to the insurance-buying public.
Page 358 - The right to compensation benefits depends on one simple test: was there a work-connected injury? Negligence, and, for the most part, fault, are not in issue and cannot affect the result. Let the employer's conduct be flawless in its perfection, and let the employee's be abysmal in its clumsiness, rashness and ineptitude: if the accident arises out of and in the course of the employment, the employee receives his award. Reverse the positions, with a careless and stupid employer and a whollyinnocent...
Page 190 - The plight of the injured farmworker is no less serious than that of a worker in a manufacturing plant or a retail store. Indeed, the farmworker is the least likely to have personal insurance or savings. Administrative problems, however, make universal coverage for farmworkers more difficult to achieve than coverage for most other employees. The predominance of part-time help on farms, their geographical dispersion, and the fact that migrant farmworkers may work for many different employers during...
Page 80 - Congress to ease the regulatory burden is for it to review and even rewrite laws such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Superfund, to name a few.
Page 190 - Commission noted means to ameliorate these problems and believed workers' compensation to be a far preferable means to protecting injured farmworkers than leaving them to the uncertainties of the tort system. Echoing the National Commission two decades later, the Commission on Agricultural Workers said: Congress should encourage all States to provide Workers' Compensation Insurance coverage to agricultural employees comparable to that of other workers in the United States.
Page 221 - AAW is to unite together as agricultural organizations and individuals, and to communicate with one another and with other consumers to promote agriculture for the benefit of the American people and the world.