33 U.S.C. § 948 — Laws inapplicable
submitted 99 years ago by ch. 509 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 102 words · no verdicts yet
This section says specified maritime laws do not limit recoveries or penalties under this chapter when an employer lacks required compensation coverage.
Nothing in sections 4283, 4284, 4285, 4286, or 4289 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, nor in section 18 of the Act entitled “An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes,” approved June 26, 1884 , as amended, must be held to limit the amount for which recovery may be had (1) in any suit at law or in admiralty where an employer* has failed to secure compensation as required by this chapter, or (2) in any proceeding for compensation, any addition to compensation, or any civil penalty.
Nothing in sections 4283, 4284, 4285, 4286, or 4289 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, nor in section 18 of the Act entitled “An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes,” approved June 26, 1884, as amended, shall be held to limit the amount for which recovery may be had (1) in any suit at law or in admiralty where an employer* has failed to secure compensation as required by this chapter, or (2) in any proceeding for compensation, any addition to compensation, or any civil penalty.
Source credit: (Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 48, 44 Stat. 1446.)
- 1927Enacted · Act of Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509 · 44 Stat. 1446
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