WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LIABILITY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES STATE BY STATE


MICHIGAN

[A]n occupational disease requires “a recognizable link between the disease and some distinctive feature of the claimant's job, common to all jobs of that sort.” An occupational disease cannot be “an ordinary disease of life to which general public was equally exposed outside of that employment,” and the disease must “have incidence substantially higher in that occupation than in usual occupations or, in case of ordinary disease of life, in general population.”

Influenza is a compensable injury. 59 H. 551, 584 P.2d 119. (case reference Priscilla A. LAWHEAD, Claimant-Appellee, v. UNITED AIR LINES)


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