R 408.22110 Basic requirement.

Rule 1110. You must consider an injury or illness to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a preexisting injury or illness. Work-relatedness is presumed for injuries and illnesses resulting from events or exposures occurring in the work environment, unless an exception in R 408.22110a(5) specifically applies. Editor's Note: An obvious error in R 408.22110 was corrected at the request of the promulgating agency, pursuant to Section 56 of 1969 PA 306, as amended by 2000 PA 262, MCL 24.256. The rule containing the error was published in Annual Administrative Code Supplement, 2015. The memorandum requesting the correction was published in Michigan Register, 2017 MR 6.