Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor Volume 101-103; No. 107 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...and the amount so agreed is less than ten shillings $2.43 a week, or as to the redemption of a weekly payment by a lump sum, under the Workmen s Compensation Act, 1906, the employer shall, within three days thereafter, or such longer time as may be prescribed, send to the insurance commissioners, or to the society or committee concerned, notice in writing of such agreement giving the prescribed particulars thereof, and proviso (d) to paragraph (9) of the second schedule of the Workmen s Compensation Act, 1906 (which relates to the powers of registrars of county courts to refuse to record memoranda of agreements and to refer the matter to the judge) shall, in cases where the workman is an insured person, apply to agreements as to the amount of compensation in like manner as to agreements as to the redemption of weekly payments by lump sums. (2) Where an insured person appears to be entitled to any such compensation or damages as aforesaid and unreasonably refuses or neglects to take proceedings to enforce his claim, it shall be lawful for the society or committee concerned, either--(a) at its own expense, to take in the name and on behalf of such persons such proceedings, in which case any compensation or damages recovered shall be held by the society or committee as trustee for the insured person; or (lb) to withhold payment of any benefit to which apart from this section such person would be entitled. In the event of the society or committee concerned taking proceedings as aforesaid and failing in the proceedings, it shall be responsible for the costs of the proceedings as if it were claiming on its own account. (3) Nothing in this section shall prevent the society or committee paying to an insured person benefit by...