

     § 18.  Compensation laws allowed to General Assembly.
        The General Assembly may enact laws requiring the payment by
     employers, or employers and employees jointly, of reasonable
     compensation for injuries to employees arising in the course of
     their employment, and for occupational diseases of employees,
     whether or not such injuries or diseases result in death, and
     regardless of fault of employer or employee, and fixing the
     basis of ascertainment of such compensation and the maximum and
     minimum limits thereof, and providing special or general
     remedies for the collection thereof; but in no other cases shall
     the General Assembly limit the amount to be recovered for
     injuries resulting in death, or for injuries to persons or
     property, and in case of death from such injuries, the right of
     action shall survive, and the General Assembly shall prescribe
     for whose benefit such actions shall be prosecuted. No act shall
     prescribe any limitations of time within which suits may be
     brought against corporations for injuries to persons or
     property, or for other causes different from those fixed by
     general laws regulating actions against natural persons, and
     such acts now existing are avoided.
     (Nov. 2, 1915, P.L.1103, J.R.3)

        Prior Provisions.  Former section 18 was renumbered to
     present section 29 and present section 18 was renumbered from
     former section 21 by amendment of May 16, 1967, P.L.1037, J.R.3.

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