Michigan Compiled Laws 317-1969-4 Chapter 4 Occupational Diseases And Disablements (418.401...418.441)

• Section 418.401 Definitions; Determination Of Entitlement To Weekly Wage Lost Benefits; Notice Of Employee Refusing Offer Of Employment; Termination Of Benefits; “reasonable Employment” Defined; Personal Injuries Or Work Related Diseases To Which Section Applicable.
  (1) As used in this chapter, "disability" means a limitation of an employee's wage earning capacity in work suitable to his or her qualifications...
• Section 418.405 Fire Or Police Department Members, County Sheriff And Deputies, State Police, Conservation Officer, And Motor Carrier Officer; “personal Injury” As Including Respiratory And Heart Diseases Or Resulting Illnesses; Presumption; Claim Against First Responder Presumed Coverage Fund For Certain Cancers; Suspension Of Claim Against Employer; Application For Pension Benefits As Condition Precedent; Determination Denying Pension Benefits; Medical Expenses Not Provided By Pension Program; First Responder Presumed Coverage Fund; Creation; Duties Of State Treasurer; Director As Administrator; Notice To Legislature Of Insufficient Funds; Operation And Management Of Fund; Report; Rights.
  (1) In the case of a member of a fully paid fire department of an airport operated by a county, public airport authority, or...
• Section 418.411 Disablement Treated As Personal Injury.
  The disablement of an employee resulting from such disease or disability shall be treated as the happening of a personal injury within the meaning...
• Section 418.415 Death Or Disablement Compensation.
  If an employee is disabled or dies and his disability or death is caused by a disease and the disease is due to the...
• Section 418.425 Date Of Disablement.
  For the purposes of this chapter the date of disablement shall be the date the hearing referee or worker's compensation magistrate, as applicable, may...
• Section 418.431 Employer's Liability; Conditions Exempting And Limiting.
  No compensation shall be payable for an occupational disease if the employee at the time of entering into the employment of the employer by...
• Section 418.435 Employer From Whom Total Compensation Recoverable; Effect Of Dispute Or Controversy.
  The total compensation due shall be recoverable from the employer who last employed the employee in the employment to the nature of which the...
• Section 418.441 Claim For Occupational Disease And Death Resulting From Occupational Disease; Requirements; Commencement; Time Limit.
  (1) The requirements of claim for occupational disease and death resulting from an occupational disease and the requirements as to the bringing of proceedings...

Last modified: October 10, 2016