General American Life Insurance v. Industrial Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a health insurer could not seek reimbursement from a survivor out of death benefits because the death benefits claim was independent, “separate and apart from an employee’s claim during his lifetime against his employer”
• describing Workers’ Compensation Act as “a humane law of a remedial nature whose fundamental purpose is to provide employees and their dependents prompt, sure and definite compensation”
• describing Workers’ Compensation Act as “a humane law of a remedial nature whose fundamental purpose is to provide employees and their dependents prompt, sure and definite compensation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).