Effectively Handle Work-Related Injury Cases from Start to Finish

This definitive answer book is perfect whether you're handling a worker's compensation case, answering a client's question, or settling a third-party injury claim.

With this book, you will be able to:

• Grasp and analyze the essential statutory requirements for a claim
• Identify and comply with the new administrative rules
• Confidently represent clients before the agency, at every stage of the process
• Craft appropriate fee arrangements

Highlights of this brand-new edition include:

• Full text of new administrative rules governing worker's compensation proceedings promulgated in 2021
• Detailed analysis of the new administrative rules, including filing, appearances, discovery, mediation, exhibit admissibility hearings, appeals, recovery of overpayments, and more
• Extensive discussion of the new attorney fee rule, with examples of fee calculations in various types of cases
• An overhauled and expanded chapter on the exclusive remedy rule and up-to-date information on the interplay between Medicare and worker's compensation
• Discussion of recent Michigan Supreme Court opinions on the burden of proof in worker's compensation cases, aggravation of existing conditions, scope of employment, and more
• Analysis of numerous recent appeals commission and Michigan Court of Appeals opinions regarding business travel, establishing disability, vocational rehabilitation, partial disability, contracts of hire, and more