The Making of Workmen's Compensation Rates as Illustrated by the 1951 Pennsylvania Rate Revision

The Pennsylvania system of making workmen's compensation rates differs in many important respects from the systems used in other states. No attempt will be made to enumerate these differences, nor to comment upon them in other than a general way. Rather, this paper will simply describe how rates are made in Pennsylvania, using the July 1, 1951 rate revision as an example. Since no description of the Pennsylvania system has appeared in the Proceedings of the Society since 1919, this paper should be of interest to the members of the Society.