Claims Appeais. law on Judgment rendered for claims for taxes. Any claims for compensation, medical, hospital and nursing services, and medi- against employers. cines and funeral expenses brought before said commission by an injured employee, or by his dependents in the event of his death as a result of injury sustained in the course of employment In which said commission denies the right of claimant or claimants to receive or to continue to receive compensation from an employer who has failed or neglected, either to contribute to the State insurance fund or to elect to'pay compensation, medical, hospital or nursing services, and medicines and funeral expenses direct to his injured, or the dependents of his killed employees, on the ground that the injury was self-inflicted, or on the ground that the injury did not arise in the course of employment, or upon any other ground going to the basis of the claimant's right, the claimant or claimants have the right to appeal to the common pleas court of the county wherein the injury was inflicted, in the same manner as in claims against the State insurance fund and as heretofore prescribed in this section; except that the employer shall be the defendant in such proceedings; and if a verdict is rendered in favor of the claimant or claimants, compensation shall be fixed within the limits under the rules prescribed in this act; and any final judgment so obtained shall be paid by the employer. Such judgment shall have the same preference against the assets of the employer in favor of the claimant or claimants as is now, or may hereafter be, allowed by law on judgment rendered for taxes. The cost of such proceeding, including a reasonable attorney's fee to the claimant's attorney to be fixed by the trial judge, shall be taxed against the unsuccessful party. Either party shall have the right to prosecute error as in the ordinary civil cases. [Section 1465-101 is amended by an act, p. 6, so as to read as follows:] What agree SEC. 1465-101. All contracts and agreements shall be absolutely void and of no effect which undertake to indemnify or insure an ments void. employer against loss or liability for the payment of compensation to workmen or their dependents, for death, injury or occupational disease occasioned in the course of such workmen's employment, or which provide that the insurer shall pay such compensation, or which indemnify the employer against damages when the injury, disease or death- arises from the failure to comply with any lawful requirement for the protection of the lives, health and safety of employees, or when the same is occasioned by the willful act of the employer or any of his officers or agents, or by which it is agreed that the insurer shall pay any such damages. No license or authority to enter into any such agreements or issue any such policies of insurance shall be granted or issued by any public authority. OKLAHOMA. ACTS OF 1917. CHAPTER 178.-Industrial commission-Employees' salaries. SECTION 1. The salary of the secretary of the State industrial commission is hereby fixed at eighteen hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 2. The State industrial commission is hereby authorized to appoint: One inspector, at an annual salary of $1,500. One medical adviser, at an annual salary of $1,200 per annum: Provided, That being a member of the faculty of the medical department of the State university shall not be a disqualification to fill said position. SEC. 3. The State industrial commission may employ not to exceed two stenographers and fix their compensation not to exceed the sum of ninety dollars per month for each stenographer, and not to exceed two stenographers and fix their compensation not to exceed the sum of eighty dollars per month for each stenographer, both the number and compensation of such employees to be subject to the written approval of the governor; such compensation may be paid out of any contingent fund available for such purpose. Approved this 23d day of March, 1917. Secretary. Employees. Same. 309 OREGON. ACTS OF 1913. CHAPTER 112.-Compensation of workmen for injuries—State insurance fund. [This act is amended so extensively by chapter 288, acts of 1917, that it is reproduced in full, as amended.] Grounds for SECTION 1. The State of Oregon recognizes that the prosecution of the various industrial enterprises which must be relied upon to law. create and preserve the wealth and prosperity of the State involves the injury of large numbers of workmen, resulting in their partial or total incapacity or death, and that under the rules of the common law and the provisions of the statutes now in force an unequal burden is cast upon its citizens, and that in determining the responsibility of the employer on account of injuries sustained by his workmen, a great and unnecessary cost is now incurred in litigation, which cost is divided between the workmen, the employers and the taxpayers, who provide the public funds, without any corresponding benefit, to maintain courts and juries to determine the question of responsibility under the law as it now exists, and that the State and its taxpayers are subjected to a heavy burden in providing care and support for such injured workmen and their dependents, and that this burden should, in so far as may be consistent with the rights and obligations of the people of the State, be more fairly distributed as in this act provided. SEC. 2. A commission is hereby created which shall be known as the "State industrial accident commission," to be composed of three commissioners. Immediately upon the taking effect of this act, the governor shall appoint such commissioners, not more than two of whom shall belong to one political party. Each commissioner appointed hereunder shall hold office until his successor is appointed and qualified. Any vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governor. Inasmuch as the duties to be performed by such commissioners vitally concern the employers, the employees, as well as the whole people, of the State, it is hereby declared to be the purpose of this act that persons be appointed as commissioners who shall fairly represent the interests of all concerned in its administration. Commission. Removal of SEC. 3. The governor may at any time remove any commissioner appointed by him for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or commissioners. malfeasance in office. Before such removal he shall give such commissioner a copy of the charges against him and shall fix the time when he can be heard in his own defense, which shall not be less than 10 days thereafter, and such hearing shall be open to the public. If such commissioner shall be removed, the governor shall file in the office of the secretary of state a complete statement of all charges made against such commissioner and his findings thereon, with a record of the proceedings. Such power of removal shall be absolute and there shall be no right of review in any court whatsoever. No commissioner shall hold any other office or position of profit or pursue any other business or vocation or serve on or under any committee of any political party, but shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office. Oath. |