American Workers’ Compensation

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Society

• Hunter/Gatherer
• Agrarian
• Industrial
• Service
• Informational

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Law

• Secular Code
• Nippur Tablet (3191 BC)
• Hammurabi (1700 BC)
• Justinian (527 AD)
• Common Law
• Norman Conquest 1066
• King George (England)

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Modernity

• Code or Common Law?
• Inheritance
• Coexistence
• Hybrid
• Constitutional Republic
• Administrative

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Workers’ Compensation

• Genderism
• Pirates?
• Prussian Otto Von Bismarck
• Employers' Liability Law of 1871
• Broadened 1884
• English
• 1880
• Market economy and socialism

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American Adaptation

• Early 20^th Century (1902)
• Friction between due process and social welfare
• Various constitutional challenges
• Triangle Shirt Waist
• Cast of characters
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Francis Perkins, Crystal Eastman, Jane Addams
• Louis Brandies ("Great Trade Off”)

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American Adaptation

• State systems (1902 Maryland; 1911 Wisconsin; 1948 Mississippi or Alaska/Hawaii 1959? Washington DC 1979)
• Federal Adjuncts (FELA)
• Diversity through evolution
• Consistency through plagiarism

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Consistency and Distinction

• Medical and Lost Wages
• Accidents and Diseases
• Monopolistic and Market
• Abrogation of Common Law
• Immunity
• Fellow servants
• Limited damages

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Broader Concerns

• Employment Law
• Discrimination, Compliance
• Labor Law
• Unions, Contracts, Arbitrations
• Government Regulation
• Federal
• State
• Local

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Government Regulation

• Social Security 1935
• Medicare and Medicaid 1965
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) 1967
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 1990
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) 1993
• Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) 2023)
• HIPPA

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Career Paths

Hurt at Work

• Kids Chance of America
• Kids Chance of Florida

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American Workers’ Compensation

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