Matter of Erickson v. . Preuss
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered March 14, 1918, affirming an award of the state industrial commission made under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The theory of the New York law is not indemnity for loss of a member or physical impairment as such, but compensation for disability to Work made on the basis of average weekly wages.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered March 14, 1918, affirming an award of the state industrial commission made under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The theory of the New York law is not indemnity for loss of a member or physical impairment as such, but compensation for disability to Work made on the basis of average weekly wages. (Marhoffer v. Marhoffer, 220 N. Y. 543; Matter of Winfield, 216 N. Y. 284; N. Y. C. R. R. Co. v. White, 243 U. S. 188; Matter of…
1Per curiam
On the 16th day of August, 1916, the claimant was employed by one Max Preuss in a laundry operated by him. While thus employed, on the day named, a revolving shaft attached to an electrically operated washing machine caught her hair and she sustained very serious injuries, including an extensive laceration of the scalp. Her injuries resulted, among others, in a serious facial disfigurement, the nature of which, according to the findings of the commission, consisted of a long scar commencing at the top of the right ear, crossing the temple, “ following the upper orbital margin down to the…
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- Shanahan v. . Monarch Engineering Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1916
- Matter of Marhoffer v. . MarhofferNew York Court of Appeals · 1917
- Matter of Winfield v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1915
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