The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-06-19
new INSURANCE
Law SOON EFFECTIVE

Inc legislature which convened al
Carson City this spring enacted a law
which entirely changes the system Of
compensation to employees in the state
of Nevada who may be injured while
occupied IN their employment.
The act creates an Industrial In.
surance Commission Ii IS provided
by the terms of the act that each em.
ployer in the state employing two or
more persons, except household sery.
ants and farm hands, shall paw into
the state treasury percentage of the
pay roll of such employer set forth in
the act The percentage to be paid
ranges from y to 8 per cent of the
pay roll. The amounts thus paid into
the state treasury are kept in a sepa.
rate fund as an insurance fund. The
law goes into effect on the first of
next month and thereafter any EN-.
ploye who may be injured shall look
to such insurance fund for compensa.
tion for his injury, and the depend
ents of any person who may be killed
while in sueh service shall likewise
look to such insurance fund for com
pensation for the death Of sueh EN-.
ploye.
The act provides that either the
employer or the employe may reject
the law and not operate under it. but
in order to do so such employer or
employe must prepare and file notice
of rejection of the law which is set
.orth in the act ANY employer who
does not file such notice is presumed
to be operating under the act and will
he required to pay the percentage Of
the pay roll required by the statute
into the state treasury.
Some of the largest mines of the
state have indicated their intention to
operate under the law mentioned and
II is thought that practically all of
the employers of labor in the state
will operate under il.
A similar law has been in effect in
the state of Washington since the sum-
mer of 1911, and on April first of this
year the insurance commission of that
state made it's first report covering an
eighteen months period. That re
port shows that the law is working to
entire satisfaction in the state of
Washington and il is hoped that both
the employer and the employed in
Nevada will cooperate TO make the
law success in this state
A similar law was passed by the
legislature of California at its recent
session
Heretofore, in ease of an injury TO
any employee unless settlement is
made. suit is brought and all delays
incident to passing through the trial
court and perhaps the Supreme Court
must be borne by the injured or his
representatives. Statistics show that
in the end the injured person or his
relatives receive less than fifty per
cent of the amount expended in the |
payment of judgments and attor
neys' fees in such eases. The purpose
of the new law referred to is to give I
10 the injured person a direct and in |
method Of receiving com /
pensaton for his injury without the (
necessity OF long delay and heavy /
expenditure fer counsel fees. The EN- /
ployer is likewise benefited in that he I
is not required to incur the expense in I
cident to de ense in personal injury i
eases. Greater. however, than finan-
rial questions is the benefit that will /
come from the law in establishing /
better relation between the employer /
and employed than can possibly exist |
under the peresent system.