The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-12
REPORT SHOWS VARIED PROBLEMS
 OF 0FC0MPENSATI0N
Commissioners Called Upon To Answer Perplexing
 Questions.

| that the compensation act took effec on Jan. 1, 1914, to June of this year which is one of the most remarkable publications ever sent ous by the State
 Not only. does it show how many cases were taken to the Supreme Court, but also shows the remarkable character of the decisions which commissioners under the compensa. | tion act have been called upon tc make. A perusal of the pages o1 the book reveals questions which | would stagger the proverbial Phila- ! delphia lawyer, but so we'll have the Connecticut commissioners handled the matters that very few of their de- cisions have been upset by the courts Among the questions which the commissioners have been called upon to decide are some that would keep a layman in hot water all the time, lowing "stickers": May asthma be an injury? Is compensation due when the em- ployee momentarily leaves his work and engages in sport, and is it due when it results from fight, brought on at the instance of the one injured or or fellOW-Workman! In determining whether a man has l five employees, are the employees of a business in which he is a partner to be counted? A point involved in the Coady vs. Igo case. just decided by the Supreme Court of Errors, but which went off upon another point and did not involve the decision of this mooted question. Is the provision of the act, that alien dependents only get half as much as resident dependents, in con- flict with the treaty between the Unit- ed States and Italy? If a man Is seriously sick, and the injury makes him worse. is compen- sation due?
 Where the city hires team from the owner of a team and the owner furnishes the driver, is the driver the servant of the original employer or of the city?
 fla drummer travelling out of New Haven is asphyxiated out of the State, is there liability?
 Where an automobile strikes a wag- on and 1t, in turn, strikes city la borer. is the city liable for compensa- tion?
 Is the furnishing of an artificial leg surgical assistance?
 Is bone-setter a physician?
 Is the minister of church an em- ployee?
 Who has the burden of proof?
 Is chiropractor a doctor?
 Under what circumstances may g compromise be allowed?
 Is a man who cuts wood by the cord a servant or a contractor?
 If an injury does not incapacitate a man, but, owing to it's nervous re- suits, he thinks that 1t does, does he have to work?
 Can director of bank. who gets an honorarium of $5 for attending a directors meeting. get compensation in case he is injured by a swinging door as he leaves the banking house? A point decided in case of a mill lionaire employe?
 What is the effect of failure on the part of an employee to take ad- vantage of the emergency treatment provided in the factory?
 When may an employee refuse to accept medical services offered and get his own doctor at the expense of the employer?
 Is the statement of a doctor receiv- ed in evidence, or does the doctor have to attend at the hearing?
 When is the sight of an eye entire 1y lost, or when is 1t almost lost?
 What happens if there is an injury to an extra finger not found on an ordinary hand, but found on the hand of the injured employee?
 When is a sunstroke an injury? 2
 Under what circumstances is com pensation allowed for lead poisoning and other occupational iseases?
 What hazards are those om the em- ployment and what are hazards of living?
 7 When may the employee be put in a public ward in a hospital, and when may he, demand a private room :?
 When an employee injures his fin- ger and blood-poisoning goes into his arm, does he receive compensation only for the loss of the finger, or for the. loss of the finger together with compensation for the incapacity re- sultfng from the trouble in the arm?
 In what circumstances is the fam fly of travelling man who went down on the Lusitania entitled to, compen- sation?
 Can one who is doing involuntary service for the State at the jail get compensation for injury?
 Does an award run against the in surance company, or only against the employer?
 What is the effect of an injury to a, housemaid while building 8 fire with kerosene?
 If one has finished his days work and goes to get his bicycle in another room and is injured while getting out of the window owing to the presence of gas in that room, can he have compensation?
 How is marriage shown?
 Is the burden upon the employer to prove that the employee was intox- icated or must the employe show that he was sober? ,f
 When a night worker is injured go- ing out to get lunch. is the employer liable?
 Is notice to employees that they must seek emergency treatment suf- ficient by pasting. a notice in the shop, and, if SO, may that notice be in Eng fish, or must it be in the language which the particular employee un- Ger stands?
 Wlien may an employee he coni- pelled to submit to an operation?
 What is an outworker?
 Are pneumonia and rheumatism in juries? -'