Accident Insurance.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 163, 22 July 1901, Page 3

Accident Insurance.

(To the Editor of the Times.)

Sir, —In reply to the question asked by,

“ Not a tailor, but one who wants to know,” re employer’s liability under the new Act, in your valuable issue of Saturday morning, I beg to say that, provided tho supposed accident disabled the employee for at least two weeks, and further provided the was no reason to suppose the employee wilfully poisoned his hand and the injury not otherwise intentional on tho part of the claimant, the employer certainly would bo liable, for the Act distinctly says : —Clause 6 : “ If in any employment to which this Act applies personal accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workar, his employer shall as hereinafter mentioned be liqlfle to pay compensation in accordance with the second sohedule to this Act. The employer, however, in no case of total temporary disablement is

liable under the Act for more than half wages. Tho rate of wages received not being calculated on the previous week’s wage alone but upon the average weekly wage paid for the previous twelve months or any lesser portion of twelve months during which the claimant has been employed.— I am, etc.,

C. P. W. Loxgdill, Agent, Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Limited.