The Practical Results of Workingmen's Insurance in Germany (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Practical Results of Workingmen's Insurance in GermanyAs to the first charge, he alleges that almost from the begin ning it was found difficult to secure fair and honest adjudication of claims. The principle of giving the benefit Of doubt to the claimant came into early operation, and the claims, under its insidious in¿uence, multiplied in number and became less and less valid. 'the workmen began to come as beggars asking and ex pecting the insurance laws to be stretched in their favor.' The expenses of the system continued to grow as the force required increased.The number of officials in the Imperial Insurance Office has multi plied in tune with the ever-waxing burden of work, so that in the estimate year 1909-10 it had risen to sixty-three permanent members, in addition to the President, the two Directors, and ten assistants, while the number of judicial assessors has increased from four to no less than ninety-nine. In the provinces the best voluntary social workers have withdrawn in disgust, leaving the administration of the industrial insurance funds to become more and more professional and bureaucratic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.