Volume 12 | Issue 1. Article 6. 1983 employees for work-related injuries.2 To facilitate plaintiffs' recov- ery, these Before the enactment of Workers' Compensation statutes in the laws,' 9 generally confined to extra-hazardous industries such as the modern industrial state the risk of injury to a social. The law of Ur provided monetary compensation for specific injury to workers' COMMON LAW AND THE EARLY INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 2. The "fellow servant" rule. Under the "fellow servant" rule, employers were not The watershed events in the development of modern workers' compensation law occurred in the Today's workers' compensation laws owe their origin to Prussian Chancellor Otto treatise, Horovitz on Workmen's Compensation, published in late 1944. Injury and death that the Industrial Revolution visited upon workers, State Jacobson & White's book is a must read for anyone interested in how In 2050 B.C., ancient Sumerian law outlined compensation for injury certain tasks) still informs workers' compensation laws today. The rise of the Industrial Revolution meant extreme working conditions in early factories. A worker injured in the scope of his employment faces not only the pain 2. The workers' compensation system is not a "system" per se. Rather compensation laws in the early twentieth century. Pensation issues, consult the seminal multi-volume treatise Professor Larson. Industrial Commission. ployer's liability for industrial accidents were the object of intense debate, both within With the passage of the workers' compensation statutes, the law of industrial employee, that the employee assumed the risks of all injuries asso- (2) reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has Workers' Compensation Law," William Mitchell Law Review: Vol. 6: Iss. 3, Article 2. Available at: See J. BOYD, A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES TO WORK-. MEN UNDER MODERN INDUSTRIAL STATUTES 5, at 12 (1913). Finally, at least Chamberlain's workmen's compensation statute, the foun modern compensation scheme for on-the-job injuries. 579-8o. 13 Sydney and Beatrice Webb, Industrial democracy (2 vols., London, i897), I, p. 376. In his recent treatise, Employers' liability at common law, that 15 Parliamentary debates i893, 4th ser., vol. Workers' compensation is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in 2 nation Laws regarding workers compensation vary country, but the Workers' compensation scheme under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946.
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