Legal Definition and Related Resources of Workmen’s Compensation

The term embraces all legislation whose purpose is to compensate workmen for loss resulting from injury, disablement or death through industrial accident, casualty or disease, whether the same arises from a tortious wrong or not, and in accordance with a definite schedule based generally upon the loss or impairment of the workmen’s wage earning power. See Alaska Packers Asso. v. Industrial Accident Com., 294 U.S. 532, 55 S. Ct. 518, 79 L.Ed. 1044. The statutes give recognition of a moral duty on the part of the public, elevated into a legal obligation not of the employer alone but of the public as well, to compensate reasonably those who are injured while in the employment of others, as a part of the natural, necessary cost of production. Milwaukee v. Miller, 154 Wis. 652, 144 N. W. 188.

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Arising Out Of And In The Course Of Employment, Compensable.