employers' liability acts

employers' liability acts
Statutes (e.g., Federal Employer's Liability Act; Workers' Compensation Acts) defining or limiting the occasions and the extent to which public and private employers shall be liable in damages (compensation) for injuries to their employees occurring in the course of their employment, and particularly abolishing the common-law rule that the employer is not liable if the injury is caused by the fault or negligence of a fellow servant and also the defenses of contributory negligence and assumption of risk.

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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