A Model to Determine the Appropriate Monetary Redress for Accidents Involving Compensable Injury to Person

  • Kim, Seong-In (Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science)
  • Published : 1975.12.31

Abstract

A System of evaluation is developed which determines a uniform and individualized monetary redress. It can be applied not only to permanent disability but to temporary disability cases and considers all factors affecting monetary redress in determining process. As objects of compensation this model considers five factors, the degree of injury, the change of earning capacity, medical fee, job suspension and the degree of contributory negligence. For each object is defined a subfunction measuring its magnitude. Then by assigning reasonable weighted values to these five subfunctions according to their relative importance, we get main function which determines appropriate monetary redress.

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