workmen's compensation

workmen's compensation
A general and comprehensive term applied to and embracing those laws providing for compensation for loss resulting from the injury, disablement, or death of workmen through industrial accident, casualty, or disease' such laws possessing the common feature or characteristic of providing such compensation otherwise than on the basis of tort liability and in accordance with a definite schedule based generally upon the loss or impairment of the workmen's wage-earning power. Lewis & Clark County v Industrial Acci. Board, 52 Mont 6, 155 P 268. The payment made under such a law to a disabled workman or the spouse, children, or representatives of a deceased workman.

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