WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION

Silicosis

Death benefits. Medical care 180 days. Partial disability compensated if
33% percent or more.
Death benefits. Medical care, maximum $500. Partial disability not com-
pensated. Maximum in all cases $4,375, plus $125 burial expenses.

Death benefits. 6 months limited medical care; partial disability com-
pensated.
Medical care limited to 60 days; partial disability compensated.

Covered (no details).

Death and disability benefits. Partial disability compensated. Medical
treatment at expense of employer. $500, in 6 months may be extended to
$800.
Amendment provides for pgogressive increase in total benefits for permanent
disability or death until total amount equals benefits paid for permanent
disability or death due to accidental injury (average life expectancy limita-
tion). Hospital and medical care and funeral expenses (waivers provided
for).

Death benefits. Medical care limited to 90 days and $750. Compensation Same as provisions for other occupational diseases.
same as for accidents including partial disability.

Death benefits. Medical care maximum, $700, subject to increase. Com-
pensation payable weekly same as for accident cases. Plus $250 burial
expenses. Maximum, $7,500.

Death benefits. Medical care unlimited, Compensation same as for acci-
dents including partial disability.
Death benefits; medical care, $200 limit, which may be increased; compen-
sation same as for accidents including partial disability.

$50 per month.

Death benefits. Medical care maximum, $700, subject to increase. Partial
disability compensated, $1,200 maximum first month act effective; increased
$100 each month until maximum is $7,500. Compensation payable weekly
same as for accidents, plus $250 burial expenses.
Does not differ from provision for other occupational diseases.

Medical care $200 limit, which may be increased. Payment for total dis-
ability same as for accident cases; partial disability provides for compensa-
tion with maximum of $2,100.

Death benefits; medical 90 days and not to exceed $225 and 90 days hospital.
maximum benefits $5,000. Employer's liability increasing from one-half in
1939 to full amount in 1951, State paying difference.

$1,500 medical care. Partial disability compensation. $3,000 maximum. Total disability or death cases maximum, $9,781.25. Burial expense, $350. Provisions for silicosis do not differ from provisions for other occupational diseases.

Coverage all diseases. Medical care limited to compensable period. May Do not differ from provisions for other occupational diseases. be extended-compensation same as for accidents including partial disability.

Any disease "incurred in the course of and resulting from employment" is compensable as an injury.

1 Plus $2.31 per week for each child and $3.46 per week for each invalid child as long as
he remains an invalid.

2 Payment for nonlisted disabilities are usually related to loss of earning power and the
minimum weekly payments shown do not generally apply.
3 Less period of disability payments, if any.

4 According to number of dependents.
5 Or wage but not less than $6.25.

6 Special provisions for disfigurement.

7 In addition to compensation for temporary disability, limited in some States to a
specified number of weeks.

8 Less disability payments, if any.

Additional amount for additional dependents, maximum $30.

10 Thereafter, annually 12 percent of total previous payments in specific case of total
and permanent disability, and 8 percent of such amount in other cases.

11 In addition to compensation for temporary total disability.

12 Actual wage, if less.

12a Actual wage, if less, but in no event to be less than $8.

13 Payment for certain scheduled injuries in addition to payments for temporary total.
14 Paid only if vocational rehabilitation fails.

18 Widow plus 3 children.

19 Widow plus 4 children.

20 Exclusive of medical and hospital benefits.

21 Dollars, not percentage figure, used.

22 Includes 5 percent for each dependent child not to exceed 5.

23 Sec. 72-121 (d) 1 of act reads: "If said workman leaves surviving boys or girls under
eighteen years of age, there shall be credited to the account of each of said children a lump
sum equivalent to $21 per month until the time when each of said children would become
eighteen years of age: Provided, That the lump sum credited to the account of all of said
children shall in no case exceed $6,350, excepting the unpaid balance of an award to a sur-
viving spouse who has remarried or died shall not be considered as a part of said aggregate
lump sum: And provided further, That the amount credited to the account of each child
shall be held by the State treasurer and disbursed for the use and benefit of such child
only under proper order by any district court within the State of Wyoming."
24 Payable $87.50 per month.

25 For married workmen $25.96 per week; additional amounts for dependents with stated
maximum. (See footnote 26.) Payable $87.50 per month to single workman and $112.50
if workman is married. (See footnote 26.)

26 Sec. 72-121 (b) of act reads: "If the workman suffering such permanent total disa-
bility has boys or girls under 18 years of age, there shall be credited to the account
of each of such children, a lump sum equivalent to $21 per month until the time when
each of said children would become 18 years of age: Prorided, That the lump sum
credited to the account of all said children shall in no case exceed $6,350, and provided
further that the amount credited to the account of each child shall be held by the State

Partial disability compensated. Maximum for first stage $1.000, second
stage $2,000. For total disability, compensation same as for injury.

treasurer and disbursed for the use and benefit of each child only under proper order
by any district court within the State of Wyoming."

27 $20.76 for married workmen. In addition to compensation for temporary total dis-
ability. Special provisions for disfigurement. Permanent partial disability payments
made on basis of $70 per month to single workman and $90 per month to married work-

man.

28 If incapacity extends beyond 8 days, temporary total disability paid from date of
injury, otherwise no compensation paid for first 3 days of injury.

29 For married workmen $25.96. Additional amount for dependents with total weekly
maximum $40.38. Payable on monthly basis from $87.50 for single workman; $112.50 for
man and wife; up to $175 for man, wife, and 6 or more dependents other than wife.
30 $165 for medical treatment; $165 for hospital care.

31 Plus $4.62 per week for youngest or only child; $3.46 for the next or second youngest
child; $2.31 for each additional child (maximum $32.31 per week).

32 Certain additional amounts allowed according to number of dependents; married
workmen $23.08 (additional for children, maximum $38.08 per week). (Additional allow-
ance for constant attendant, up to $10.40 per week.)

33 Benefits are fixed sums $50-$5,000. Payment for 2 or more injuries may exceed
maximum. These payments, in addition to those for temporary total disability, also
can go over the $5,000 by a combination of specified disability plus any part up to 34 of
the $5,000 allowed on a permanent partial disability for unspecified disability.

34 Additional amounts for married workman (increased by $15 per month), or married
workman with wife and children, maximum $32.31 per week. No pay for day of injury
or 3 days following same.

35 Beginning July 1, 1949, wages upon which death benefits are based shall not exceed
$37.50 per week nor be less than $21.25 per week.

36 This schedule applies to loss of leg, arm, etc., i. e. specific losses, not amounting to
total disability.

37 Compensation for temporary total disability may be allowed, maximum 15 weeks,
but not to exceed 10 percent of schedule.

38 Payments for certain scheduled injuries in addition to payment for temporary total.
"Loss of use" in certain cases in lieu of all other compensation. Special provision for
disfigurement.

39 Percentage applies to the difference between wages received at time of injury and
wages that injured employee is able to earn thereafter.

40 Maximum not to exceed the maximum compensation allowed in cases of total disa-
bility, and not exceeding the total compensation provided for the total loss of the member
causing such partial disability.

41 Period and payments of partial disability, if any, to be deducted from maximum.
42 Plus $2 per week for each dependent child up to 6 children. Plus $5 for dependent
wife; maximum $37.

43 Special provisions for vocational rehabilitation.

44 $5 or actual wage if less for the additional 150 weeks in certain specified cases. 45 Medical, surgical, and hospital care maximum $500.

46 As of Oct. 1, 1948. Information on later amendments to the law, if any, not available

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