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Focuses on the release of report of the U.S. National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws. Creation of the report under the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act; Expenditure in the documentation of the report; Purpose of the workmen's compensation law to bring social justice to the factories and workshops by making employers bear the economic costs inflicted upon employees by work accidents and illness; Statement that the maximum weekly benefits for temporary total disability in more than half the states do not equal the national poverty income level for a non-farm family of four; History of other rules related to workers' compensation proposed in the country; Attitude of the commission toward the states merits; Reaction of the public towards the report.

The author comments on the excessive regulation on the workmen's compensation benefit for the survivors of an industrial-accident victim in the U.S. According to the author, the widowed mother of a deceased workman's minor children must be appointed first as a legal guardian, which involves a long and expensive process, before she can claim support. The author says that it would be unfair on the part of the widow if she still has to undergo the same process in getting the small benefits due her.

The article highlights a 1952 court decision in Louisiana which dealt with the provision of a workmen's compensation to an employee. A male employee was shot while on the job doing road repairs. He sued his employer for a workmen's compensation award to pay for his wounds. The court awarded the employee a workmen's compensation and said that the employee would not have been shot if he had not been working on the road at the time of the shooting.

The article focuses on the decision of a New Jersey court on the entitlement of an employee to compensation benefits after encountering an accident during the company's Christmas party. It presents the reasons of the court for awarding the benefits to the employee.

The article focuses on the case of an employee who wants to collect compensation, following the vehicular accident that led him to the hospital, because of driving a truck while he was drunk. According to his testimony, the one responsible for the incident was his employer, because he was indulged to get drunk. Meanwhile, the court decided that the participation of the employer in the drinking bout implied that he will not hold the employee's drinking against him.

The article presents the 1951 decision of the Court of Civil Appeals of Texas on the case where a certain man applied for his insurance company for total disability payments because his doctor said he is unfit to work. The company refused him because he is able to go to his office every day and do enough work to draw a pay check at the end of the week. The court ruled in favored of the complainant because his condition would require him to desist from the performance of his duties.

The article focuses on the decision of the Superior Court of New Jersey on the case of a truck driver who sued his company for damages for injuring his arm twice due to a deep hole on a road on company property. The plaintiff contends that the company ought to settle for both injuries. The company counsel argues that the second accident occurred miles from their plant and ten weeks later. The plaintiff collected $5,000 for both, on the ground that the second injury resulted from the first.

The article focuses on the ruling of the Second Circuit of U.S. Court of Appeals on the case of an engineer who was badly injured from the explosion of one of the generators on a World War II Liberty ship. The lawyers of the engineer contend that the engineer would lose $31,273 in wages due to the injuries. The court decided to give the full amount of wages to the engineer without consideration of the future income taxes on the grounds that those are unpredictable.

Expresses opinion about the compulsory heath insurance for families and workers pushed by social workers in the U.S. Experience of nations which have given such systems a thorough try-out on health insurance; Rate of insured workmen in England; Affordability of insurances on below-income workers.

Cites a court decision regarding a secretary who filed an workmen's compensation after she fell heavily when suddenly somebody pulled her chair as she puts her makeup.

The article focuses on an employee, who demanded workmen's compensation. She went about her duties as office manager and did as much work as two average employees. Despite her age, she resented any attempt to decrease her workload. At the peak of the year's activity, she collapsed with a severe stroke.

The article presents a case filed by an employee for worker's compensation in 1958 after being injured by the company truck that suddenly started up and injured him while sleeping beneath it. The court ruled in favor of the employee stating that idle interval used for rest and sleep by an employee who has no immediate duties except to wait is not a deviation from his employment.

The article focuses on a court ruling on a case in New York about the liability of an employer to compensate an employee for performing a public duty during working hours. A taxi driver was ordered by a policeman to chase bank robbers on their getaway vehicle. The driver incurred injuries upon performing his public duty. The court favored the taxi driver.