Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-04-15
new LAW PLACES
Responsibility
WORKMEN'S RISKS
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maintenance of such proceedings III
it is found in the proceedings for
settling the claim that the employer
is not prejudiced in his defense by
the want, defect or inaccuracy, and
that such want, defect or inaccura-
cy was occasioned by mistaken or
other reasonable cause. Notice in
respect of an injury under this act
shall give the name and address
of the person injured, and shall
state in ordinary language the cause
of the injury, if known, the date
at which it was sustained, and shall
be served on the employer, or, if
there is more than one employer,
upon one of such employers. The
notice may be served by delivering
the same to or at the residence or
place of business of the person up
on whom it is to be served, or the
notice may also be served by post,
by registered letter addressed to
the person on whom it is to be
served at his last known place of
residence or place of business, and
If served by post shall be ueemed
TO have been served at the time
when the letter containing the same
would have been delivered in the
ordinary course of post and in
proving the service of such notice
1t shall be sufficient to prove that
the notice was properly addressed
and registered. Where the employ
er is a body Of persons, natural or
artificial, the notice may also be
served by delivering the same at
or by sending it by post in a reg
istered letter addressed to the en-
ployer at the office, or, if there be
more than one office, any one of the
Offices of such body.
See J. The amount of compen-
sation in case death results from in
jury, or for death accruing within
five years as a result of injury, shall
be:
(a) If the workman leave any
person or persons who at the time
of the accident were wholly depend
ent upon his earnings, sum equal
to his earnings in the employment
of the same employer during the
three years next preceding the in
jury, OF the sum of two thousand
dollars, whichever of these sum is
greater but not exceeding in any
case three thousand dollars; provid
ed that the total sum of any weekly
payments made under this act shall
be deducted from such sum; an(
if the period of the workman.
employment by the same employel
has been less than the said three
years, then the amount of his earn
ings during the said three years
shall be deemed to be nine hun
dred and thirty-six times his aver
age daily earnings during the pc
riod of his actual employment un
der the same employer.
OBJ If the workman leave onI
person or persons who at the tim,
of the accident were partly depend
ent upon his earnings, sum equa
to 80 per cent of the amount pay
able under the foregoining provi
sions of this section.
(c) If the workman leave n,
person at the time of the acciden
who was dependent upon his earn
ings, the reasonable expenses of hi
medical attendance and burial, no
exceeding in all three hundred del
lars.
Whatever sum is payable unde
this section in case of death of tn
injured workman shall be paid t
his legal representatives for tn
benefit of such dependents, and
he leaves no such dependents, the
to the public administrator for tn
Nie VI lllC Pei sui VI persons
whom the expenses of medical a
tendance and burial are due.
Sec. 6. The amount of comper
sation in case of total or parti;
disability resulting from iniur
shall be:
(a) A weekly payment durin
the disability, beginning within tie
days after the injury, 60 per Ger
OF his average weekly earnings i
such employment during the prev
Gus twelve months if he has bee
SO long employed, but if not, the
for any less period during whic
he has been in the employment {
the same employer, so long as thel
is complete disability; and TIL
proportion of the said percentas
which the depleted earning capaci
Tor that service bears to the tot
disability when the injury is on
partial, but in no event shall Il
total or all payments under this a
exceed the sum of three thousar
dollars.
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