| Abstract [eng] |
In the paper through the systematic analysis method, the comparative method, the linguistic method, the systematic method of interpretation of law the decisions of the Lithuanian Supreme Court (taken from 2003 to present) are being analyzed, to disclose the problems arising to courts in applying the responsibility for employer's liability for damage to the employee's disability or other damage to health or the victim's death. The work consists of three parts, in which on the basis of decisions of the Supreme Court of Lithuania the different aspects of the application of the employer's liability are intended to disclose. The first part discusses the concept and the conditions of employer‘s liability in the light of the rules of interpretation of theses conditions, formulated in the decisions of the Lithuanian Supreme Court. The second part covers the main legal acts, regulating employer‘s liability for material damage caused to the employee's disability or other damage to health or the victim's death, by systematizing the Lithuanian Supreme Court decisions according to the law the court had applied, or had to apply. The third part is following up the problems with the compensations for the injured workers, payment procedures, the individual cases when the debtor is changing and when the voluntary insurance is being involved in a material liability relation, illustrating each of these questions with the decisions of Lithuanian Supreme Court. The aim of the work was to investigate the practical aspects of the Institute of the material liability of an employer. |
