Before the days of the Accident Compensation Corporation, workers often had to sue their employers for compensation if they were injured at work. Employers, in turn, could take out insurance against those compensation claims. This cartoon advertisement from the 1920s shows the extremely unlikely story of a farm labourer acquiring the farm of a couple who failed to take out this ‘indemnity’ insurance.
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Reference: Eph-B-INSURANCE-1902-01-1
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