San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-26
Total Disability in Texas
May Bring From S2OO5
to S6015 While Death
Claim Is Set at $3.50 to
$7200.

What is your thumb worth? Is
Your big toe as valuable as the great
toe of your neighbor? If you were to
put a valuation on each member Of
your body, what would be the specific
value of each and what would be the
grand total? How would your figures
compare with those set by the employ
ers liability act of the state of Texas /?
III you were to lose a thumb while
In the employ of a concern that sub
scrlbed to the association in Texas.
you might get $500 and you might get
S9oO. 1t would depend upon the sal.
airy you were drawing at the time of
the accident. The law would allow
you 10 per cent of your salary for 60
weeks: but not less than nor more
than So per week in any event.
A first finger is not so valuable. II
you were to lose one. you could draw
the same amount Of COMPENSATION
weekly for no more than rs weeks.
For the loss Of a second finger Won
could draw compensation 80 weeks. for
a third finger 81 weeks. and for a lit.
tie finger Is weeks.
The value of the several limbs and
organs of the body is named in terms
of weekly compensation. Hands range
from $3.50 to S2250, depending on the
salary OF the loser. Feet fluctuate be.
tween S625 and S1ST5. An arm NAV
be worth $1,000 or it may bring $4,000.
Legs are valued at the same figure.
Eyes vary between 500 aid $1,000.
For Total Disability.
If man is totally disabled, he can
draw compensation for 401 weeks,
Therefore. for the loss of two eyes. two
hands. two feet or their equivalent. he
may draw S2O05 or he may get S6O15.
In no case will he be paid more or
less.
Under the original law IL the injury
resulted in death. the beneficiary
would draw from s. to S1j for $50
weeks. An amendment has raised the
payments to range between 81 and
$50. A life that was formerly worth
$500 to $500 is now valued at $500
to $1,000.
Compensation awards vary widely in
the different states of the union, &C.
cording to a report recently made by
the National Industrial Conference
Board. For the loss of a thumb Wyom.
ing pays S225 and Oregon pays 5000.
New York and Alabama have a law
very similar to Texas. Compensation
is allowed for 60 weeks.
Wyoming considers $1,000 sufficient
remuneration for the loss of :. hand.
In Washington $1,000 is the value set
by the compensation for pa weeks
against the 80 weeks allowed BY the
Texas law. Similar variations occur
in the awards given for the loss of a
foot, an eye or other member of the
body.
Good Looks Have Value.
Texas allows compensation for any
injury that incapacitates the worker
from earning full wages for a week or
longer. New York has held that a man
can collect for injury to his good looks
OF such nature that humiliation fol-
lows. New York and Michigan have
paid damages where horses bit ears off
employees. Another workman who had
ms nose bitten off was granted $4,000
by the New York board. One man
collected compensation in New York
because he could not replace a lost eve
with one of glass. and another because
an injury to his eyelid made it so weak
that he was winking at whatever at
tracted his attention.
Oklahoma grants workers $1,000 for
the loss Of their hearing and $500 for
deafness in one ear. Washington val.
ues the hearing at $1,000 and one eat
at $500. Texas allows COMPENSATION
for 80 weeks, the amount of tbs
awards ranging from $3.50 t, S22JO.
| Under the Texas law. it is the duty
of the association to furnish the neces
sary medical aid for four weeks afte,
the date of injury. Should the injured
party prefer his own physician. he will
have to bear the expense unless tbs
association has refused to provide med
} ical attention, except for services rem