Michigan Laws 418.545 – Compromising liability of silicosis, dust disease, and logging industry compensation fund; redemption of liability
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 418.545
- Carrier: means a self-insurer or an insurer. See Michigan Laws 418.601
- Disability: means a limitation of an employee's wage earning capacity in work suitable to his or her qualifications and training resulting from a personal injury or work-related disease. See Michigan Laws 418.301
- employee: means :
(a) A person in the service of the state, a county, city, township, village, or school district, under any appointment, or contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written. See Michigan Laws 418.161Employment in the logging industry: means employment in the logging industry as described in the section in the workmen's compensation and employers liability insurance manual, entitled, "logging or lumbering and drivers code no. See Michigan Laws 418.501 Self-insurer: means either of the following:
(i) An individual employer authorized to carry its own risk. See Michigan Laws 418.601
The trustees may compromise the liability of the silicosis, dust disease, and logging industry compensation fund by entering into a redemption of liability directly with the employee if, in the judgment of the trustees, it is in the employee’s best interest to do so. Redemption of liability shall terminate the liability of the fund. A redemption of liability by a carrier including a self-insurer in which the fund is not a party for compensation paid for disability or death from silicosis or other dust disease or for disability or death arising out of and in the course of employment in the logging industry, made with the employee before the actual payment by the carrier including a self-insurer of $12,500.00 in compensation benefits for personal injury dates before July 1, 1985, or before the actual payment by the carrier of $25,000.00 or 104 weeks of benefits, whichever is greater, for personal injury dates after June 30, 1985, shall eliminate the liability of the silicosis, dust disease, and logging industry compensation fund.