Aetna Life Insurance v. Roose

This case concerns two issues: (1) whether the Workers’ Compensation Bureau has jurisdiction to review the validity and enforceability of an insurance company’s claim against an injured worker for failure to repay under a "reimbursement agreement” made pursuant to MCL 418.821(2); MSA 17.237(821)(2) between an injured worker and his employer’s insurance company; and (2) whether, for the purposes of § 821(2), a reimbursement agreement is equivalent to an assignment and comes within the intended meaning of "an assignment made to an insurance company making an advance or payment to an employee”.

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