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Three Systems Of Workers' Compensation, H. Allan Hunt Oct 1998

Three Systems Of Workers' Compensation, H. Allan Hunt

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Disability Prevention Among Michigan Employers, 1988-1993, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck, Brett Vantol, Susan M. Scully Sep 1993

Disability Prevention Among Michigan Employers, 1988-1993, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck, Brett Vantol, Susan M. Scully

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


The Michigan Disability Prevention Study: Research Highlights, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck Apr 1993

The Michigan Disability Prevention Study: Research Highlights, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This 3-year collaborative research project was designed to provide empirical evidence to substantiate the impact of various employer policies and practices on the prevention and management of workplace disability. It studied a random sample of 220 Michigan establishments with more than 100 employees from seven different industries who responded to a mail survey in the first half of 1991. The study correlates differences in employer-reported levels of achievement on policy and practice dimensions with performance on disability outcome measures, while controlling for a set of establishment characteristics in a multivariate regression analysis.


Analysis Of Persistence In Employer Injury Rates: Final Report, H. Allan Hunt Mar 1993

Analysis Of Persistence In Employer Injury Rates: Final Report, H. Allan Hunt

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Defining "Disability": The Approach To Follow, Theodore J. St. Antoine Jan 1993

Defining "Disability": The Approach To Follow, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Articles

The definition of "disability" has once again become a central issue in workers' compensation law. I am partly responsible. A decade ago I served as the Governor's Special Counselor on Workers' Compensation. In my Reportto the Cabinet Council on Jobs and Economic Development, I stated: "If I could write on a clean slate, I would prefer to see the Michigan definition brought even closer into the mainstream of American law by declaring that '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 …


Workers' Compensation System In Michigan: A Closed Case Survey, H. Allan Hunt Jan 1982

Workers' Compensation System In Michigan: A Closed Case Survey, H. Allan Hunt

Upjohn Press

Provides a data base for analysis of workers' comp issues in Michigan, and offers a comparison between cases from insured and self-insured employers.


Workers' Compensation Reform: A Case Study Of The Legislative Process In Michigan, Robert Vanderlaan, Richard K. Studley Apr 1981

Workers' Compensation Reform: A Case Study Of The Legislative Process In Michigan, Robert Vanderlaan, Richard K. Studley

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

At a 1979 workers' compensation seminar for the Michigan Legislature, University of Michigan law professor Marcus Plant closed by noting that "[m]y intent was to sketch in broad strokes the background of our workers' disability compensation law. It is my firm belief that wise decisions as to where we should go cannot be made unless we know how we got where we are. " I share Professor Plant's belief. I feel strongly that wise public policy decisions about where we should go next in the reform process depend substantially on a good understanding of how we got where we are …


Inflation Protection For Workers' Compensation Claimants In Michigan: A Simulation Study, H. Allan Hunt Jan 1981

Inflation Protection For Workers' Compensation Claimants In Michigan: A Simulation Study, H. Allan Hunt

Upjohn Press

Explores the idea of a privately funded, publicly administered benefit adjustment program to protect wc beneficiaries from inflation.


Workmen's Compensation--Encouraging Employment Of The Handicapped In Michigan: A Proposal For Revision Of The Michigan Second Injury Fund, Michigan Law Review Dec 1968

Workmen's Compensation--Encouraging Employment Of The Handicapped In Michigan: A Proposal For Revision Of The Michigan Second Injury Fund, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Employment of the handicapped is clearly a proper concern of the state. Unemployed, such a person is a burden on his family and on the state; welfare and relief payments to such a person needlessly increase costs to both the state and local governments supporting such programs. Employed, the handicapped person is a self-supporting, stable member of the community; he becomes a taxpayer rather than a tax consumer. There are also important moral and social considerations which may be simply summarized stating that no person who is able to work should be needlessly denied employment. In short, any continued waste …


The "Heart Cases" In Workmen's Compensation: An Analysis And Suggested Solution, Arthur Larson Jan 1967

The "Heart Cases" In Workmen's Compensation: An Analysis And Suggested Solution, Arthur Larson

Michigan Law Review

It is one of the great tragedies of the workmen's compensation story that almost all courts, in their perfectly justifiable search for a legal barrier that would keep compensation heart liability from getting out of hand, have seized upon the wrong component in the coverage formula. The words "by accident" or their equivalent were pressed into service for this task, ·and they have proved to be a most ill-fitting tool for this function. If the courts had followed the more logical course of testing these cases by the causal principle prescribed by the words "arising out of the employment," there …


Workmen's Compensation - Benefits - Exclusiveness Of Schedule Provision, Mark Shaevsky Mar 1958

Workmen's Compensation - Benefits - Exclusiveness Of Schedule Provision, Mark Shaevsky

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff received benefits under the schedule provisions of the Michigan workmen's compensation statute for amputation of four fingers and one leg. Upon the expiration of payments the hearing officer awarded additional recovery for plaintiff's total disability resulting from the amputation. After subtracting compensation received for the specified losses, the appeal board affirmed. On appeal to the supreme court, held, affirmed by an equally divided court. The legislature intended the schedule provisions to be irreducible minimum awards, not exclusive compensation. Curtis v. Hayes Wheel Co., which construed schedule allowances as barring further recovery for total and permanent disability, is …


Infancy-Effect Of Workmen's Compensation Act On Privilege To Disaffirm Nov 1931

Infancy-Effect Of Workmen's Compensation Act On Privilege To Disaffirm

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff's decedent, a minor illegally employed, was killed while in the course of employment. As administrator, plaintiff sought to repudiate the award under the Compensation Act. He proceeded with an action at law and obtained a judgment of $20,000. On writ of error, held, judgment reversed without a new trial; the minor, not having elected otherwise, was bound by the terms of the Workmen's Compensation Act. Thomas v. Morton Salt Co., 253 Mich. 613, 235 N.W. 846 (1931).