Section 418.537 - Payments from self-insurers' security fund. - Michigan Statutes

WORKER'S DISABILITY COMPENSATION ACT OF 1969 (EXCERPT)
Act 317 of 1969

418.537 Payments from self-insurers' security fund.

Sec. 537.

(1) The trustees may authorize payments from the self-insurers' security fund upon request to the fund's administrator by a disabled employee or a dependent of the disabled employee as defined in section 331 who is receiving or is entitled to receive worker's compensation benefits from a private self-insurer who becomes insolvent after November 16, 1971, and is unable to continue the payments.

(2) If an employee becomes disabled or dies because of a compensable injury or disease while in the employ of a private self-insurer who has become insolvent and who is unable to make compensation payments, the employee or a dependent of the employee as defined in section 331 may seek payment from the self-insurers' security fund either by request through the fund's administrator or by filing a petition for hearing with the bureau.

(3) Payments shall not be made from the self-insurers' security fund to an employee or a dependent of the employee as defined in section 331 for any period of disability that is before the date of the request to the administrator or the date of the petition for hearing before the bureau.

(4) If there is an apportionment as provided in section 435, the trustees may reimburse subsequent employers.

History: Add. 1971, Act 149, Imd. Eff. Nov. 16, 1971 ;-- Am. 1972, Act 337, Imd. Eff. Jan. 4, 1973 ;-- Am. 1977, Act 9, Imd. Eff. Apr. 6, 1977 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 269, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 1992
Compiler's Notes: Section 2 of Act 9 of 1977 provides: “This amendatory act shall be effective for all payments authorized pursuant to section 537(1), (2) and (3) after November 15, 1971.”
Popular Name: Act 317