David Macaulay - veritaslegalmedia@hotmail.com We tend to think of workers' compensation as a 20th Century safeguard that only applies to industrialized nations. But there are precedents for the present systems going back thousands of years. Some of the oldest societies had primitive forms of workers’ compensation. An article in the Iowa Orthopaedic Journal refers to the idea of money for injuries in ancient Sumeria, one of the world’s earliest civilizations in modern day Iraq. The Nippur T...