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Excerpt from Report Upon the Operation of the Workmen's Compensation Law for the Year Ending November 30, 1915: State Department of Labor, Governor John H. Morehead, Commissioner Contrary to a large majority of the compensation states, the Nebraska law provides no machinery for the administration Of the compensation law. The law provides rules in accordance with which settlements are supposed to be made between the employer and the employe. But in actual practice these settlements are made between the insurance company and the em ploye. Only when no satisfactory settlement can be reached is the state brought into the matter, by a petition to a court of equity, or which there are many in the state. The court is required to hear such witnesses as are presented and in a summary manner decide the merits of the controversy. Under this system one Of the important purposes of a workmen's compensation law, the making accessible Of full and complete relief for the injured employe or his dependents at the time most needed, is to a large degree defeated. The administration of a compensation law through the courts, a number of separate and scattered tribunals already overburdened by their ordinary business and more or less likely to be unfamiliar with the law, results harmful in that serious delays occur, unnecessary fees paid to attorneys and court costs eat up a large portion of awards, settlements in violation of the law are frequently sanctioned by the courts or even ordered by them on their own initiative, conflicting opinions are handed down, con fusing and complicating the whole system and making justice a matter of location, not of law. The delay and expense, the unequal footing Of the parties in the courts, and unfamiliarity with and inherent fear Of court procedure, all Operate to defeat the very purpose of a compensation law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.