The centennial of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act
Subtitle: a narrative and pictorial celebration
By: David B. Torrey, editor ; Lawrence D. McIntyre, editorial assistant
Contributors: Torrey, David B., editor; McIntyre, Lawrence D., editor
Publisher: Pennsylvania Bar Association
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Harrisburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 537
ISBN-13: 9780692030660
Subjects: Law and legislation; Workers' compensation; Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act (Pennsylvania); Anniversaries; Centennial celebrations; History
Other titles: Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-526).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : forward, membership of the Centennial Committee, preface, the future, acknowledgments, kid's chance, photo identification and credits / Matthew L. Wilson and David B. Torrey; title: The Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act : history, purposes, and two essential narratives / David B. Torrey; title: Before 1915 and the Workers' Compensation Act : the Pennsylvania fellow servant rule and the partial reform of the Casey Act / Lawrence D. McIntyre; title: The history of Pennsylvania's workmen's compensation : 1900-1916 / Jonathan L. Schaffer; title: Six months' experience under the Workmen;s Compensation System of Pennsylvania : an address before the Pennsylvania Bar Association, June 28, 1916, Bedford Springs, PA / Francis H. Bohlen; title: The Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Board's dramatic first year : law, policy, and precedent / David B. Torrey; title: The administration of the Act : a history and the present role of the Bureau of Workers' compensation and the Workers' Compensation Office of Adjudication / Elizabeth A. Crum, Stephen J. Fireoved, George Knehr, and Kathleen M. Dupin; title: A history of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Appeal Board : 1972-2015 / Alfonso Frioni and Robert A. Krebs; title: Philadelphia Bar Association Workers' Compensation Section centennial arts project / Scott Olin; title: The Workers' Compensation Act, its Amendments, and interpretation : 1916-present / David B. Torrey; title: The genesis of Act 147 of 1996 / Lawrence R. Chaban; title: Efforts to impose federal standards in workers' compensation : an historical account / David B. Torrey; title: Occupational safety and health and workers' compensation in historical perspective / David B. Torrey, Robert Baker, and David Frank; title: Outstanding historical figures, workers' compensation officials, and state bar association leaders plus a memoir of the 1970s and an encomium / David B. Torrey and Susan H. Swope; title: William A. Skinner and his contribution to the development of Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation law / Daniel R. Schuckers; title: Anecdotes from the archives of practice / Benjamin L. Costello and C. Robert Keenan; title: A brief history of a parallel law : the Heart & Lung Act / Kelly Dollins; title: Pennsylvania's mental lapse : a history of Pennsylvania's treatment of mental disabilities caused by mental stress in workers' compensation / Bradley R. Smith, J.D.; title: The durability of workers' compensation law against its adversaries / David B. Torrey; title: Five years of compensation in Pennsylvania (1921) / Harry A. Mackey; title: E.H. Downey's Workers' compensation : the theory of "least social cost" / David B. Torrey; title: Workers' compensation : capitalist plot? / David B. Torrey; title: Workers' compensation as efficient cost allocation device / David B. Torrey.