SB 196, 59th R.S.
Relating to amending the Workmen's Compensation Law to authorize any employer voluntarily, by subscription of proper insurance, to extend Workmen's Compensation benefits to any employee or classification of employees not presently covered and not excluded from coverage by federal law and to provide that any employee so insured shall be held to have waived his right of action at common law or under any statute of this State to recover damages for injuries sustained in the course of his employment if he shall not have given his employer notice that he claimed such right.
Author: Murray Watson, Jr.
Subjects:
Labor--Workers' Compensation
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