MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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CHAPTER 213
(House Bill 330)

AN ACT concerning

Workmen's Compensation — Technical Correction

FOR the purpose of correcting a technical error in the
laws relating to Workmen's Compensation.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 101 — Workmen's Compensation

Section 16(e)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1964 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 16(e) of Article 101 - Workmen's
Compensation, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 101 — Workmen's Compensation

16.

(e) In exercising the discretion conferred upon it
by this section and § 15 of this article, the Workmen's
Compensation Commission shall consider the reputation of
any insurance company or association, in which any such
employer may desire to insure, for promptness and
fairness in the settlement of compensation claims,
without unreasonable resistance on the [party] PART of
any such insurance company, or association, and shall
also consider the financial strength of the employer, the
number of employees employed, the degree of hazard to
employees engaged in the employment, the likelihood or
danger of several employees being injured or killed by
one and the same accident, the relative influence, the
different methods, by which compensation may be assured
under this article, are likely to exert upon the employer
and his employees for the prevention of accidents, and
any other facts or conditions bearing upon the security
and promptness of payment of the compensation and the