workmen's compensation statutes
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United States Supreme Court
Historically, workmen's compensation statutes were the offspring of a desire to give injured workers a quicker and more certain recovery than can be obtained from tort suits based on negligence and subject to common-law defenses to such suits. Thus compensation laws are practically always thought of as substitutes for, not supplements to, common-law tort actions.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - United States v. Demko, 385 U.S. 149 (1966).