CHAPTER 2--LIABILITY FOR INJURIES TO EMPLOYEES -Section. 55
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES LIABILITY ACT (F.E.L.A.)
U.S. CODE TITLE 45 – 45 U.S.C. SECTION 51-60
CHAPTER 2--LIABILITY FOR INJURIES TO EMPLOYEES
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Section. 55. Contract, rule, regulation, or device
exempting from liability; set-off
Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the
purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt
itself from any liability created by this chapter, shall to that extent be void:
Provided, That in any action brought against any such common carrier under or by
virtue of any of the provisions of this chapter, such common carrier may set off
therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit, or
indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee or the person entitled
thereto on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought.
(Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, Section. 5, 35 Stat. 66.)
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