Foster v. Industrial Insurance Commission

Citations

• 107 Wash. 400
• 181 P. 912
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 761

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant (121-2)—Workmen’s Compensation Act— Adoption op Fixed Schedule—Capriciousness—Review. Under Rem. Code, § 6604-20, allowing an appeal from an award of damages by the industrial insurance commission upon questions of fact, the action of the commission is not capricious or arbitrary in that an award for $150 for the loss of part of a finger was determined by a system of “degree” classifications made by the commission under Laws 1917, p. 81, § 1, subdiv. f., which names fixed sums from $2,000 to $1,300, for the loss of various major parts of a leg or arm, and requires that compensation for other permanent partial disability shall be in the proportion which the extent of the disability shall bear to the disabilities specified in the act most closely approximating such other disability in degree of disability.</p> <p>•Same (121-2.)—Award by Single Member oe Commission. An award of $150 for the loss of part of a finger, according to the schedule fixed, is not capricious or arbitrary in that it was made by only one of the c'ommissioners, where the schedule was adopted by the commission as a whole, by its “degree” classifications under Laws 1917, p. 81, § 1, subdiv. f., which contemplates that individual awards be made in the exact sum provided by a definite and uniform schedule.</p>