Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-28
Another amendment provides that 1

Another amendment provides that 1 the compensation on account of death | payable to a widow or wIdower of a 1 deceased employee, shall not cease with the death of such widow or wid- | over, but. upon her or his death with | in the period during which suth com pensation is payable, shall be contin- ued for the remainder of the period. Another amendment provides that the loss of. or the loss of the use of, enc phalanX of great toe shall be construed IS half of the loss of the great toe, and is also applicable to fingers.
 | The date of appointment of commits sioners to be fixed on or before Jan l uary l, of each year. instead of oa the 1 first day of January, is another amendment
 Where delay is made in payment of 1 compensation the award may include 1 interest at the rate of six per cent.
 Der annum, is still another.
 When an appeal is pending, the court may render a judgment direct
 ing compliance with any portions of such award not affected by the peo- , pie. In appeals Ehere one of the par ties is not represented by counsel. and where the party taking the appeal shall not claim the case for trial with
 in @ reasonable time from the return day, the court may of it's own motion affirm the award. When appeal is taken the elerA5 of courts would be
 required to notify the commissioner. | There are other amendments.
 1 Whenever commissioner suspects
 that an employer is dilatOry in com plying with the law. the commission
 CT may revoke certificate of such era blower. More than $300,000 has been pald for compensation, according to statement of MT. Williams. Connecti-
 cut is the first state in the Union to
 give full medical and surgical service.
 Mir. Williams said the commissioners
 took no sides in controversies that
 arise in regard to the makeup of the
 compensation laws.
 George E. Beers, of New Haven,
 commissioner for the third district, spoke in substantiation Of the amend
 ments, and that the commission was not in favor of so-called occupationaI diseases. The commissioners try to keep together on all points, and yet there is occasional differences on the
 interpretation of the compensation
 laws. He hoped the law would be more completely defined. and he hoped there would be less ambiguity in the
 statutes. Awards are made pro forma anu then taken 10 the courts to de eide; it is a lawyers matter. and yet
 ore of great importance, and the law defects ought to be remedied.
 Charles Ferris, representing the carpenters union of Norwaik, told of injury to toe and in hospital for nine weeks, and without compensatiok for two weeks. He could nor work for seven weeks thereafter, and could not get compensation for the period. Hn was permanently injured and favored compensation from the start, and his half pay would have given him s15 a week. He sure was in favor of the amendments, he said.
 Jacob Goodhart, of New Haven spoke in favor of occupational dis. eases being inserted in the law, and which was fully discussed at the pre- cedlng legislature. Manufacturers, he said, favor insertion of occupational diseases, but insisted on a distinct and definition thereof. There was no req son why man sick from disease while i1 occupati5n, and by reason of occu- 2 Lat1on ought to get as much conpen- sation as if injured in accident The term occupational disease has now a distinctive and definite definition ill I acknowledged text books, and there
 fore is considered worthy of insertion