{"id":164,"date":"2016-03-27T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.targetmarketing-betasite-02.com\/Gotdenied\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/what-percentage-is-an-employer-responsible-for-paying-on-medical-bills\/"},"modified":"2016-03-27T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:46:08","slug":"what-percentage-is-an-employer-responsible-for-paying-on-medical-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/what-percentage-is-an-employer-responsible-for-paying-on-medical-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"What Percentage Is An Employer Responsible For Paying On Medical Bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong> My father got hurt at work. His employer\u2019s insurance is paying for the medical bills, but only 80% of his normal pay. Why isn\u2019t his employer responsible for paying the other 20% since it wasn\u2019t his fault that he was injured?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-896 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/gotdenied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Biebuyck_Row-5_SI-for-blog-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Biebuyck_Row 5_SI for blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> Your father\u2019s employer is not required to make up the difference in his normal pay. When a situation like this happens, a worker\u2019s average weekly wage is calculated based on the past year of work. Under Michigan Workers\u2019 Compensation law, a person typically receives 80% of that average weekly wage before taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION: My father got hurt at work. His employer\u2019s insurance is paying for the medical bills, but only 80% of his normal pay. Why isn\u2019t his employer responsible for paying the other 20% since it wasn\u2019t his fault that he was injured? &nbsp; ANSWER: Your father\u2019s employer is not required to make up the difference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/what-percentage-is-an-employer-responsible-for-paying-on-medical-bills\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  What Percentage Is An Employer Responsible For Paying On Medical Bills?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[201,186,202,191,140,192],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workers-compensation","tag-medical-bills","tag-michigan-workers-compensation-law","tag-work-related-injuries","tag-workers-compensation-answers","tag-workers-compensation-attorney","tag-workers-compensation-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotdenied.com\/michigan-workers-comp-attorney-social-security-disability-auto-injury-settlement-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}