§ 418.201 Bureau of worker’s compensation; creation; director
§ 418.203 Director; appointment, term, salary, removal, vacancy, expenses
§ 418.205 Powers and duties of director
§ 418.206 Position of hearing referee abolished; powers and duties of worker’s compensation magistrates; hearings
§ 418.207 Introductory and continuing legal education courses in worker’s compensation
§ 418.210 Appointment of worker’s compensation magistrate
§ 418.212 Evaluating performance of worker’s compensation magistrate; frequency; criteria; report; removal; recommendations
§ 418.213 Worker’s compensation board of magistrates; establishment; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; vacancy; reappointment; powers and duties of chairperson; duties of members; term of chair
§ 418.221 Blank forms; printing, cost
§ 418.222 Application for mediation or hearing; forwarding copy to employer and carrier; carrier to file written response; return of incomplete application or written response; medical records; proof of complia
§ 418.225 Statistics; compiling, annual report
§ 418.230 Confidential records; exceptions; power of court to subpoena records not limited; definition
§ 418.231 Obsolete records; destruction
§ 418.235 Conducting business at public meeting; notice of meeting; availability of writings to public
§ 418.274 Michigan compensation appellate commission; power and authority of commission; rules on administrative appellate procedures; assignment and reassignment of matters; decisions; review and decision by e
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 418 > Act 317 of 1969 > Chapter 2 - Administration

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Carrier: means a self-insurer or an insurer. See Michigan Laws 418.601
  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • director: means the director of the bureau or his or her duly authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 418.201
  • 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 418.161
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • Insurer: means an organization that transacts the business of worker's compensation insurance within this state. See Michigan Laws 418.601
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.