Workers’ Compensation in Michigan Flashcards
What is Workers’ Compensation?
Workers’ compensation is the system that provides wage replacement, medical and rehabilitation benefits to workers who are injured on the job.
Vocational rehabilitation time limit?
limited to 104 weeks
How are workers’ compensation benefits paid for?
Employers buy insurance
The employer may direct the injured worker
to a treating physician or medical facility of the employer’s choice for the first X
days of care following the injury or illness. After the first Y days of medical care,
injured workers may choose their own treating physician, but they must notify the
employer with the name of the chosen health care provider.
28 days
What form do you fill out when an employee is injured?
form 100
A worker must have a wage loss of at least X in order to receive any workers’ compensation wage loss benefits
one week
The average weekly wage is based on the highest X weeks of wages during the Y weeks immediately prior to the injury.
39
52
