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Ever since the abolition of slavery in 1865, the USA has often been the world leader in instituting social justice reforms. However, the USA was surprisingly slow to provide workers the legal right to make injury claims. For example, whereas the Germans established a "no-fault" workers' compensation system in 1884 and the UK passed the Workers' Compensation Act in 1897, the USA did not have a statewide work injury compensation system until 1948.
The US model was closely modelled not on our UK system but on the German (or, more accurately, Prussian) system. Under this system, employers must either insure or self-fund an injury claim pool in order to be sure they can afford to meet the cost of any employee claims.
Many personal injury lawyers credit the writer Upton Sinclair with playing an important role in getting US policymakers to implement a work injury compensation system. His novel The Jungle was a bestseller and did much to attract attention to the workplace hazards existing in many American jobs at the end of the 19th century. Its protagonist, a Lithuanian migrant worker in the notorious Chicago Slaughterhouses of the period, witnesses the full horror of the era's unsafe working practices. The following is a passage that is typical of the novel.
"[The workers'] particular trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them to be worth exhibiting, - sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard!"
Although Upton Sinclair is remembered fondly as a great instigator of workplace injury reform, his novels, unfortunately, have been treated less kindly by history. In a retrospective piece on his work, Time Magazine once wrote, "Of the many millions of words Sinclair wrote, few are the right ones in the right order."
No win, no fee injury lawyers
Workers in all civilised countries now have recourse to an injury claim in the event they suffer injury in the workplace.
The specialist solicitors on our panel are experience in representing this kind of claim and, over the years, have proudly earned a national reputation of excellence.
All our specialists are governed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and all work, win or lose, on a basis that is cost free to you. We offer much more than a simple "no win, no fee" service.
The only exception this cost free service is claims for medical negligence, where certain, minimal, costs may be unavoidable.
Furthermore, our no cuts promise, delivers all winning clients 100 percent compensation.
To find out more, or to just receive some obligation-free legal advice, fill out a claim form, have an echat, or speak over the telephone with a legal advisor on our free national accident helpline, 0800 10 757 95.
