Comp Appeals in Limbo After Governor's Board Reorganization

For the second time in eight years, a new Michigan governor has revamped the state's workers' compensation appeals commission, a plan that stakeholders on both sides have welcomed. But with no judges named to the new three-member panel and the previous commission abolished, appeals are now in limbo with no action for months on dozens of claims disputes. “I wouldn't say it's necessarily an emergency, but I haven't heard of where anything like this has happened before,” said Dawn Drobnich, an insurance defense attorney and executive secretary of the Mic...