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Monday, May 18, 2009

Michigan Workers’ Compensation

Workers' Compensation laws exist to protect and provide benefits to employees who are injured while on the job or have job-related injuries or illnesses. It is a state-regulated insurance program and every state establishes and enforces it own code of law regarding workers compensation. In Michigan, you can file a claim for workers' compensation to recover medical expenses, a percentage of lost wages while out of work and even death and burial costs.

In general, every employer is required by law to carry Workers' Compensation insurance although there are a very few exceptions to the law. In Michigan, those not require to participate in the state's workers' compensation insurance plan are:

  • Employees of the federal government
  • Employees on interstate railroads
  • Seamen on navigable waters
  • People loading and unloading vessels (covered by the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act)
  • People who are self-employed (although they must carry workers' compensation insurance for their employees, if any)


Because there are very specific timeframes for filing workers' compensation claims, it's important that you get the facts and get them quickly. If you have been injured at work and want to know more about your rights, please contact the workers' compensation lawyers at Jay Trucks & Associates. We’ll offer free consultations and if we don't recover funds for you, you won't owe us anything.

posted by Erica at 9:40 AM

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