Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-30 | Page 5 | Workmen's Act Decisions Made

IIIEI'S ACT . DECISIS 11DE Compensation Granted One,,; Denied Another, by ! Commission. i 1 1 Responsibility of the employers to meet payments under the workmen's compen-. sation act for the benefit of injured employees, em-ployees, when the company carrying the insurance has gone into bankruptcy, may be further tested out as a result of a decision de-cision rendered yesterday by the industrial indus-trial commission of Utah in the case of 'f boras Lappas against the American Fuel company and the Guardian Casualty & Guaranty eon 1 pany. Tho commission ordered that the fuel company pay Lappa s back compensation amounting to ifai'.S.tii), and that it continue con-tinue payments until further orders of the commission, which retains jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the ease in the event that at some time in the fnturo Lappas's disability should terminate. I Contracted to this was the case of I Louis Li I sos against the Hansen Live- stock Sc Feeding company and the Con-i Con-i tinental Casualty company, In which the , commission finds that the applicant has received compensation "somewhat in excess ex-cess of wha I should have been paid for the known period of disability," and the request for additional compensation is denied. Lappa s was injured July "6, 1917, less lh:iu a month after the workmen's compensation com-pensation law went into effect. He sustained sus-tained a compound fracture of the left leg. The Insurance company provided medical and hospital attention cjual to, if not in excess of, the $200 at that time allowed by statute, and paid compensa-i compensa-i tion from August rt, ten days after the j accident, until March 1J 1'jIS. Then pay-i pay-i mcuts cca sed. The commission finds 'that the disabil-i disabil-i ity still exists, and will continue for soino time in the future, and retains jurisdiction jurisdic-tion in order to be able to make any further fur-ther award upon proper showing. Xo reference is made in the decision ns . to the reason for the cessation of the ; pavments last year, but It Is ordered that the American Fuel company pay the bac( compensation due. and continue tho pay- ments of SI 2 a week. Lissls was injured last November by n ' fall from a pile of baled hay. TIo received ; nu'dieal aitt-nlion and compensation for ' toriy-tjirce wc.-ks. Complications with a . funiuT ain.lominal trouble are nolPd in the I decision, and.it is also nnt-d that. Lit sop i wo-ked for a p.-riod of cight'-en days ' '.'.Me still receiving compensation, at his fiii-'n-T v.-il-c. ;tnd ii'so for another period o:' ihirif-ep days, attending to sheen, i "While the commission,'' rf-adrf the decision, de-cision, "is of ihe opinion from the ovi- di-r.ce, that the applicant is now suffer-1 suffer-1 ii.-g i-;i-tial disability, the 'om mission is j iii-jnod to airiniite tli's to the inactiv-j inactiv-j ity of t a ; 1 il i "a nt. and t be r md i t ion of j h.s mind, rather than to the. accident it-