CLAIMS FOE INJURIES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 119, 23 May 1933, Page 13

CLAIMS FOE INJURIES

COMPENSATION CASES (By Telcjraph.—Press Association,)' / . WESTPOBT, May 22. | The Court of Arbitration commenced i its Sittings here today, when a number' of workers' compensation cases wcie- i dealt with. | In the case, Nelson v. Westpovt Coal ' Company, the ijlaintiff, a coal-miner who had been, injured ia October, 1931, was awarded £341 19s. Id, in addition to £.175 10s 6d previously paid by way of weekly compensation. Margaret Collins, widow of Charles Collins, killed in the Westport Coal Company's Millerto a mine in. October last, recovered judgment for £970 13b id. Albert McLean, a' sawmill worker, a minor, was allowed £. til 17s 9<L against his employers, Bowater and Bryan, Limited, in.-addition to £81 os 4d paid by way of weekly, compensation, and the Court held that the defendant, was not entitled to deduct £44 17s 3d, the cost of treatment-at Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer. , .;. I In the ease of Colligan and ' "W«stport Coal Company, Ltd., in which the plaintiff was an engine-driver/injured in August, 1930, the. Court held that the plaintiff, having settled: his claim in January, 1931, bad no reasonable cause for delay in commencing action, and gave judgment for the 'defendant company with'costs. .;■ .- ; The Court will continue its sittings tomorrow.: : ;' :"<:'-<:.; / V ;