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Accident Board, and shall act as chairman. The other two members shall be named respectively by the two parties. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Industrial Accident Appointment Board, upon notification that the parties have failed to reach an agreement, to request both parties to appoint their respective representatives on the committee of arbitration. The board shall designate one of its members, or deputy members, to act as chairman, and, if either party does not appoint its member on this committee, before or at the time of arbitration, the board or any member, or deputy member, thereof shall fill the vacancy.

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SEC. 8. The committee of arbitration shall make such Inquiries, inquiries and investigations as it shall deem necessary. The hearings and hearings of the committee shall be held at the locality where the injury occurred, and the decision of the committee shall be filed with the Industrial Accident Board. Unless a claim for a review is filed by either party within ten days, the decision shall stand as the decision of the Industrial Accident Board: Provided, That said Industrial Accident Board may, Proviso. for sufficient cause shown, grant further time in which to claim such review.

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slight injury.

SEC. 17. Every employer shall hereafter keep a record of Employer to all injuries, fatal or otherwise, received by his employes in keep record. the course of their employment. On the eighth day after the Report. occurrence of an accident resulting in personal injury, a report thereof shall be made in writing to the Industrial Accident Board on blanks to be procured from the board for Character of that purpose, as follows: (a) In all cases in which the injured employe is injured so slightly that he loses no time, or little time, or returns to work within seven days, the employer shall on the eighth day after the occurrence of the accident make and send to the Industrial Accident Board a report of said accident in which shall be stated the name and address of the employer; the name and address of the employe, including street, house number and postoffice; the date of the accident; the nature of the injury; the length of time lost by the injured employe, if any; the date upon which the injured employe returned to work; the amount of the medical, surgical and hospital expense, if any, incurred up to the time of the making of the report; the name of the insurance company carrying the employer's risk on the date of the accident; and such other information as the Industrial Accident Board may require. Said report shall be dated and signed in ink by the employer, Report, how or his duly authorized agent, and made and mailed to the and to whom Industrial Accident Board, at Lansing, Michigan, on the eighth day after the accident occurred. All non-compensable accidents shall be reported by the employer under this subdivision of this section. If any accident reported under this subdivision as a non-compensable accident shall later prove

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to be a compensable accident, the employer shall as soon as he learns the same to be a compensable accident make a report of the same under subdivision (b) below, and shall state in said report the fact that said accident was previously erroneously reported as a non-compensable accident;

(b) In all cases in which the employe is injured to such an extent that he does not return to work within seven days after the accident, and in all cases in which the disability of the injured employe continues for more than seven days after the accident, and in all cases in which the accident results in the loss of a member of the employe's body, and in all cases in which the accident causes the death of the employe, the employer shall report said accident to the Industrial Accident Board, at Lansing, Michigan, on the eighth day after the accident, in the manner hereinafter stated. Said report to be made under this subdivision of this section shall state the name and address of the employer; the nature of his business; the location of the plant or place of work where the accident occurred; the name and address of the injured employe, including street, house number and postoffice; the occupation of the injured employe; the department or branch of work in which the employe was injured; whether the employe was injured in his regular occupation, and if not, what the regular occupation of the injured employe was; how long the injured employe was employed; the place of birth, sex and age of said employe; whether he was single, married, widowed or divorced; the number of children of the said injured employe under sixteen years of age; the date and hour of the accident; the hour the injured employe began work that day; whether full wage was paid for the day on which the employe was injured; the daily wage, salary or emolument the injured employe was earning at the time of the accidental injury; the average weekly wage of the injured employe, computed according to the provisions of this act; the working hours per day of said injured employe; the number of days the injured employe worked per week; the place of accident in detail; the cause and manner of the accident stated fully; the nature and extent of the injury fully and in detail; the name and address of the physician who attended the injured employe; the fact as to whether the injured employe was taken to a hospital and if so, the name and address of the hospital; the name of the insurance company carrying the risk of the employer, if any; and such other information as may be required by the Industrial Accident Board. When the accident causes the loss of a member, said report shall state exactly what member, or portion of the member, was lost. The report shall be dated and signed in ink by the employer, or by some person by him duly authorized, and shall on the eighth day after the accident

be made out and signed by the employer and mailed to the Industrial Accident Board, at Lansing, Michigan;

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(c) In all cases of compensable accidents reported under Agreement to subdivision (b) of this section, the employer, or his insurer, sation. shall immediately after the making of the report to the Industrial Accident Board showing said accident to be a compensable one, prepare and sign an agreement to pay compensation to said employe under the terms of this act, and present said agreement to the injured employe for his signature, and when said agreement is signed by said injured employe, and within the second week after the accident, the said employer or insurer shall forward said agreement so signed to the Industrial Accident Board. Said agreement shall be prepared, signed and mailed so that it shall reach the office of the Industrial Accident Board on or prior to the fourteenth day after the accident. In all cases in which an accident is first erroneously reported as non-compensable and afterwards first erroneascertained to be compensable, the employer or insurer shall as prepare, sign and submit to the injured employe for his compensable." signature an agreement to pay said injured employe the compensation to which he is entitled under the terms of this act, within one week after said employer or insurer learns that said accident is compensable, and during the same time shall forward said agreement signed as aforesaid to the Industrial Accident Board;

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(d) Every employer or insurer obligated to pay workFirst weekly men's compensation to any employe under the terms of this payment. act shall make the first weekly payment of compensation to the injured employe at the end of one week after the compensation period begins to run, and shall make like weekly payments of compensation at the end of each week thereafter as long as compensation is payable to the injured employe on account of his injury;

(e) In all cases in which an accidental injury suffered by an employe shall result in his death, the employer of the employe whose death results shall on the eighth day after the accident, or after the death of the said injured employe, make to the Industrial Accident Board a supplemental report, which report shall state the name of the employer; his address; the name of the deceased employe; his nationality; the last address of the deceased employe, including street, house number and postoffice; the date of the accident which resulted in the death of the deceased employe; the date of the death of the deceased employe; whether employer furnished all medical aid required during the final illness; the amount of compensation, if any, paid to the deceased employe before his death; name and address of person who incurred the expense of the burial of the deceased; name and address of the person to whom any expense of final illness is due; and the names, ages, and relationship to the deceased, and postoffice address of all dependents of deceased as far as said

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Agreement to pay death benefits.

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employer is able to ascertain the same, and whether said persons appear to be dependent upon the deceased in whole or in part. Said report shall be dated and signed in ink by the employer or by some person by him duly authorized and shall be within fourteen days after the death of the deceased employe mailed to the Industrial Accident Board, at Lansing, Michigan.

And in all cases in which the employer shall be liable to pay compensation or death benefits to the dependents of the deceased employe, said employer or his insurer shall within said fourteen days prepare and sign an agreement to pay the same to the dependents entitled thereto, and present said agreement to the dependents of the deceased employe for their signatures; and when said agreement is signed by said dependents, and within fourteen days after the death of said employe, the said employer or his insurer shall forward said agreement to the Industrial Accident Board.

If any employer shall, after he has notice or knowledge of an accident happening to one of his employes, refuse or neglect to make any of the reports required by this section, neither he nor his insurer shall have the right to raise the defense of the statute of limitations contained in section fifteen of part two of this act in any proceedings by injured employes, or their dependents, to recover compensation, and said employer shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each offense.

SEC. 18. The board may appoint an assistant secretary at a salary of not more than two thousand dollars a year to be paid as other State employes are paid.

SEC. 20. The board may appoint not to exceed three deputy members who shall hold office during its pleasure. Such deputy members shall take and subscribe the constitutional Oath of office. Oath of office, have power to administer oaths, certify official acts, take depositions, issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, accounts and papers, and under the direction of the board any such deputy inember may conduct an investigation, inquiry, hearing or arbitration in the same manner and with like effect as if done by a member of the board. The salary of each of such deputy members shall be fixed by the board, not exceeding in any case two thousand five hundred dollars per year.

Salary.

Election of mode of payment.

PART IV.

SEC. 1. Every employer filing his election to become subject to the provisions of this act, as hereinbefore set forth, shall have the right to specify at the time of doing so, subject to the approval of said Industrial Accident Board, which of the following methods for the payment of such compensation he desires to adopt, to-wit:

First, Upon furnishing satisfactory proof to said board of Methods of his solvency and financial ability to pay the compensation payment. and benefits hereinbefore provided for, to make such payments directly to his employes, as they may become entitled to receive the same under the terms and conditions of this

act; or

Second, To insure against such liability in any employer's liability company authorized to take such risks in the State of Michigan; or

Third, To insure against such liability in any employer's insurance association organized under the laws of the State of Michigan; or

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Fourth, To request the Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Michigan to assume the administration of the disbursement of such compensation and the collection of the premiums and assessments necessary to pay the same, as provided in part five hereof. Said board, however, shall have the right from time to time to review and alter its decision in approving the election of such employer to adopt any one of the foregoing methods of payment, if in its judgment such action is necessary or desirable for any reason. Every insurance company or organization mentioned in Scope of this section issuing an insurance policy to cover any employer insurance not permitted to carry his own risk under subdivision "first" of this section, shall in one and the same insurance policy insure, cover and protect all the businesses, employes, enterprises and activities of such employer, and each and every policy of insurance covering workmen's compensation in this State shall contain the following provisions:

polices.

"Notwithstanding any language elsewhere contained in Provisions. this contract or policy of insurance, the insurance company

or organization issuing this policy hereby contracts and

agrees with the insured employer:

(a) That it will pay to the persons that may become Payment of entitled thereto all workmen's compensation for which the compensation. insured employer may become liable under the provisions of act number ten, of the Public Acts of Michigan of the first extra session of nineteen hundred twelve, as amended, or as it may be hereafter amended on account of all accidents happening to his employes during the life of this contract or policy;

services.

(b) That it will furnish or cause to be furnished to all Medical, etc., employes of the said employer, all reasonable medical, surgical and hospital services and medicines when they are needed which the employer may be obligated to furnish or cause to be furnished to his employes under the provisions of the said Michigan workmen's compensation law; and that it will pay to the persons entitled thereto for all said reasonable medical, surgical and hospital services and medicines when they are needed on account of all accidents happening to his employes during the life of this contract or policy;

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