EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16488, 2 March 1914, Page 8

EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In to-day’s Issue of the “Times” you publish a telegram from your Wellington correspondent reeord-

ing the issue by the Government Instil* ance Department of a-new schedule; of premiums for insurance against- risk* under the .Workers Compensation Acts, and - inferring that while v .the State institution had refrained 'from, increasing the rates owing to the'additional liability imposed upon employe?* on account, of last session’s legislation, ! the other insurance companies were 1 “ taking it out of the employer- by. way of higher rates.’’ This-is quite in-', correct, the actual facts; being ’ that • all the insurance companies, including! the Government Department, • have; amended their rates as from March "!, j and there will be no difference between! the rate chargd by tli State Departs j ment and the other companies'.'—** am, etc., ... ■ ... - - •, ’ INSURANCE/;/* i (Our correspondent is scarcely justified' in reading this j inference : into , our Wellington representative’s message. Tlie message certainly partook somewhat of. the nature of an advertise* ment for the State Insurance De-* partment and we now gladly extend the 6ame’ .publicity to the- other in* surance institutions.—Ed “L T”)