10 SETTLEMENT FOR ACCIDENTS TO AMERICAN SEAMEN’
settled by an attorney acting for the seaman either by agreement with
the claim adjustor, compromise after legal action was commenced, or
by the prosecution of the case in the courts. The fee of the seaman’s
attorney is included in the amount of the settlements in these groups.
Totals are shown for each section and for both sections combined.
The chief value of the latter totals is that the figures shown represent
the actual average amounts paid by the shipowner or the underwriter
to the seamen or their attorneys in settlement of the cases covered in
this study.
TaBrLe 4.— Accidents to seamen of United States merchant marine, summarized
by method of settlement
Cases involving no | Cases involving legal fees
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Both
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Total disability:
Cases involving... .......
Average days per case having. 2
Average days, all cases__._.._....
Treatment:
Cases receiving—
Onship ooo... _...__.
As inpatient... ____ sas
As outpatient. ___________.___.
Average days per case receiving—
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As inpatient. ...__._____._...
Asoutpatient._______________
Average days, all cases—
Onship. oo ooo.
As inpatient. .___......___._
Asoutpatient.._.._.____.___.
Convalescence:
Cases involving__...._._________.
Average days per case having. a.
Average days, all cases...........
Wages:
Period to which entitled—
Cases involved. _...___..._..
Average days per case involved...
......0
Average days, all cases_______
Amount payable—
Cases involved... _._.________. 787
Average per case involved... $44. 29
Average, all cases. ..._.__._..| $30.88
Maintenance:
Period to which entitled—
Cases involved... .....
Average days per case involved.
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Average days, all cases...
Amount payable—
Cases involved. ..o.o_eeuo
Average per case involved____
Average, all 0o8eS ooo |
Period from injury to settlement:
Cases involved. __.____ coo...
Average days per case involved.
Average days, all cases____.____..
Amount actually paid as:
Wages—
Cases So ser 30 241) 1,043
Average per case involved. .._ $36.39 $25.37 $28.34
Average, allcases.....______f $32.11] $20.66) $24. 74
1 Cases in which injured seamen were paid wages when put ashore and made no further claim, but who
would have been entitled to compensation under the adaptation of the longshoremen’s act.
341
206 1,195
1,139
62.9
60. G
746
655
590
10.5
46.7
25.1
7.6 6. 5
50.9] 25.6
13.20 12.4
125] 561
65.8 36.3
27 8 17.1
247) 1,056
19.2 16.8
16.00 14.8
247¢ 1,056
$42.87 $43.98
$35. 771 $38 86
195 945
61.9 36.6
40.8 280
18 195 945
$136.06) $132.64] $83.21
$72.03) $87.38' $65.80
31 288 1,165
801.5 552.7] 201.0
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