§ 500.3101 Security for payment of benefits required; period security required to be in effect; definitions; policy of insurance or other method of providing security; filing proof of security; exclusion
§ 500.3101a Providing certificate of insurance to secretary of state and policy information to the Michigan automobile insurance placement facility; vehicle identification number as proof of vehicle insuranc
§ 500.3101c Standard certified statement
§ 500.3101d Qualification as self-insurer; certificate; issuance; cancellation
§ 500.3102 Nonresident owner or registrant of motor vehicle or motorcycle to maintain security for payment of benefits; operation of motor vehicle or motorcycle by owner, registrant, or other person without
§ 500.3103 Owner or registrant of motorcycle; security required; offering security for payment of first-party medical benefits; rates, deductibles, and provisions
§ 500.3104 Catastrophic claims association; board of directors; plan of operation; annual report; actuarial examination; refund; hearing; annual consumer statement; liability of association; definitions
§ 500.3105 Insurer liable for personal protection benefits without regard to fault; “bodily injury” and “accidental bodily injury” defined
§ 500.3106 Accidental bodily injury arising out of ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of parked vehicle as motor vehicle; conditions
§ 500.3107 Expenses and work loss for which personal protection insurance benefits payable
§ 500.3107a Basis of work loss for certain injured persons
§ 500.3107b Reimbursement or coverage for certain expenses not required
§ 500.3107c Personal protection insurance benefits; coverage limits for allowable expenses; form; rebuttable presumption; application of coverage selection; stacking of insurance policies; applicability to t
§ 500.3107d Election to not maintain personal protection insurance benefit coverage; proof of qualified health coverage; form; failure to make election; termination of qualified health coverage; definitions
§ 500.3107e Delivery of forms under MCL 500.3009, 500.3107c, 500.3107d; method of selection or election for forms
§ 500.3108 Survivor’s loss; benefits
§ 500.3109 Subtraction of other benefits from personal protection benefits; injured person defined; deductible provision
§ 500.3109a Offering deductibles and exclusions reasonably related to other health and accident coverage; exclusion for qualified health coverage; reduced premium rates; applicability of exclusion; terminati
§ 500.3110 Dependents of deceased person; termination of dependency; accrual of personal protection benefits
§ 500.3111 Payment of personal protection insurance benefits for accident occurring out of state
§ 500.3112 Persons to whom personal protection insurance benefits payable; claim to recover overdue benefits; discharge of insurer’s liability
§ 500.3113 Person not entitled to personal protection insurance benefits
§ 500.3114 Persons entitled to personal protection insurance benefits or personal injury benefits; order of priority for claim of motor vehicle occupant or motorcycle operator or passenger; assigned claims
§ 500.3115 Personal protection insurance benefits under the assigned claims plan for claims of persons not occupants of vehicle
§ 500.3116 Value of claim in tort; subtraction from or reimbursement for benefits
§ 500.3121 Liability for accidental damage to tangible property
§ 500.3123 Exclusions from property protection insurance benefits
§ 500.3125 Priorities in claiming property protection benefits
§ 500.3127 Distribution of loss, reimbursement, and indemnification among property protection insurers
§ 500.3131 Residual liability insurance; coverage
§ 500.3135 Tort liability for noneconomic loss; exceptions; cause of action for damages; “serious impairment of body function” defined
§ 500.3136 Tort liability for damage to tangible property from 1 accident in excess of limit under MCL 500.3121
§ 500.3141 Notice of accident
§ 500.3142 Personal protection insurance benefits payable as loss accrues; overdue benefits; interest
§ 500.3143 Assignment of right to future benefits void
§ 500.3145 Limitation of actions for recovery of personal or property protection insurance benefits; period of limitations; tolling; notice of injury
§ 500.3146 Limitation of action by insurer for recovery or indemnity
§ 500.3148 Attorney’s fee; restrictions
§ 500.3151 Submission to mental or physical examination; physician requirements
§ 500.3152 Report of mental or physical examination
§ 500.3153 Court orders as to noncompliance with MCL 500.3151 and 500.3152
§ 500.3157 Charges for treatment or training for injured persons; limitation on eligibility for payment or reimbursement; applicability; “freestanding rehabilitation facility” defined; qualification for pay
§ 500.3157a Provision of treatment, products, services, or accommodations under personal protection insurance; submission of records for utilization review; false or misleading information is a fraudulent in
§ 500.3157b Proprietary information; exemption from disclosure under the freedom of information act
§ 500.3158 Statement of earnings; report and records from medical institution
§ 500.3159 Discovery
§ 500.3163 Automobile insurer; not required to provide personal and property protection insurance benefits to out-of-state residents; exception
§ 500.3171 Assigned claims plan; organization and maintenance; participation; costs; rules; adoption and maintenance by Michigan automobile insurance placement facility; approval of plan; amendments; provis
§ 500.3172 Conditions to obtaining personal protection insurance benefits through assigned claims plan; collection of unpaid benefits; application and reasonable proof of loss; payment of interest; reimburs
§ 500.3173 Certain persons disqualified from receiving benefits under assigned claims plans
§ 500.3173a Eligibility for benefits; initial determination; denial; notice; false statement
§ 500.3174 Notice of claim through assigned claims plan; assignment of claim; notice to claimant; commencement of action by claimant
§ 500.3175 Rules for assignment of claims; duties of insurer to whom claims assigned; compromises and settlements; procedures; limitation on action to enforce rights; interest on delinquent payments; instal
§ 500.3176 Taking costs into account in making and regulating rates
§ 500.3177 Recovery by insurer of benefits and costs from owner or registrant of uninsured motor vehicle; written agreement to pay judgment in installments; notice
§ 500.3178 Annual report
§ 500.3179 Act applicable October 1, 1973
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 500 > Act 218 of 1956 > Chapter 31 - Motor Vehicle Personal and Property Protection

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Automobile insurance: means that term as defined in section 2102. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • Commercial quadricycle: means a vehicle to which all of the following apply:
    (i) The vehicle has fully operative pedals for propulsion entirely by human power. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • commission: means the state transportation commission established in section 28 of article V of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Computed millage: means the number of mills in any year, not less than 7 mills and not more than 13 mills, determined on the date of issuance of the order qualifying the bonds or on a later date if requested by the school district and approved by the state treasurer, that, if levied by the school district, will generate sufficient annual proceeds to pay principal and interest on all the school district's qualified bonds plus principal and interest on all qualified loans related to those qualified bonds no later than the final mandatory repayment date. See Michigan Laws 388.1923
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County road commission: means the board of county road commissioners elected or appointed pursuant to section 6 of chapter IV of 1909 PA 283, MCL 224. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of education. See Michigan Laws 388.1903
  • Department: means the department of insurance and financial services. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Department: means the department of education. See Michigan Laws 388.1951
  • department of transportation: means the state transportation department, the principal department of state government created under section 350 of the executive organization act of 1965, 1965 PA 380, MCL 16. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Designated recipient: means an individual who is enrolled in, and in good standing at, as determined by the program, a graduate-level mental health professional program maintained by an institution of higher education located in this state or out-of-state, which includes a department-approved school counselor education or preparation program maintained by an institution of higher education located in this state or out-of-state, school social worker education or preparation program maintained by an institution of higher education located in this state or out-of-state, or school psychology education or preparation program maintained by an institution of higher education located in this state or out-of-state that offers designations, a focus, or special certifications in the provision of school mental health services, and who is working toward obtaining any of the following:
    •     (i) A preliminary school psychologist certificate issued by the department under R 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1951
  • Director: means , unless the context clearly implies a different meaning, the director of the department. See Michigan Laws 500.102
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Electric bicycle: means that term as defined in section 13e of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • Eligible charges: means tuition and mandatory course fees, material fees, and registration fees required by a career and technical preparation program for enrollment in an eligible course. See Michigan Laws 388.1903
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Final mandatory repayment date: means the final mandatory repayment date determined by the state treasurer under section 9. See Michigan Laws 388.1923
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Golf cart: means a vehicle designed for transportation while playing the game of golf. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • grant program: means the student mental health apprenticeship retention and training (SMART) internship grant program created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 388.1951
  • Highway: means highway or street as that term is defined in section 20 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • insurer: as used in this chapter , includes a person that files the security as provided in this section. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Maintenance: means routine maintenance or preventive maintenance, or both. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Michigan election law: means the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168. See Michigan Laws 389.105
  • Michigan finance authority: means the Michigan finance authority created under Executive Reorganization Order No. See Michigan Laws 388.1923
  • month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
  • Moped: means that term as defined in section 32b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • Motor vehicle: means a vehicle, including a trailer, that is operated or designed for operation on a public highway by power other than muscular power and has more than 2 wheels. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • Motor vehicle accident: means a loss that involves the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle as a motor vehicle regardless of whether the accident also involves the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of a motorcycle as a motorcycle. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • Motorcycle: means a vehicle that has a saddle or seat for the use of the rider, is designed to travel on not more than 3 wheels in contact with the ground, and is equipped with a motor that exceeds 50 cubic centimeters piston displacement. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • Motorcycle accident: means a loss that involves the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of a motorcycle as a motorcycle, but does not involve the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle as a motor vehicle. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • oath: shall be construed to include the word "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and in like cases the word "sworn" shall be construed to include the word "affirmed". See Michigan Laws 8.3k
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • ORV: means a motor-driven recreation vehicle designed for off-road use and capable of cross-country travel without benefit of road or trail, on or immediately over land, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • Owner: means any of the following:
    •     (i) A person renting a motor vehicle or having the use of a motor vehicle, under a lease or otherwise, for a period that is greater than 30 days. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Power-driven mobility device: means a wheelchair or other mobility device powered by a battery, fuel, or other engine and designed to be used by an individual with a mobility disability for the purpose of locomotion. See Michigan Laws 500.3101
  • Preservation: means an activity undertaken to preserve the integrity of the existing roadway system. See Michigan Laws 247.660c
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Public school: means that term as defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1951
  • Qualified bond: means a bond that is qualified under this act for state loans as provided in section 16 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 388.1923
  • Qualified loan: means a loan made under this act or former 1961 PA 108 from this state to a school district to pay debt service on a qualified bond. See Michigan Laws 388.1923
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Rate: means the cost of insurance per payroll before adjustment for an individual insured's size, exposure, or loss experience. See Michigan Laws 500.2402
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Revolving loan fund: means the school loan revolving fund created under section 16c of the shared credit rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141. See Michigan Laws 388.1923
  • School district: means a general powers school district organized under the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380. See Michigan Laws 388.1923
  • School fiscal year: means a fiscal year that commences July 1 and continues through June 30. See Michigan Laws 388.1951
  • seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
    •     (a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
  • State treasurer: means the state treasurer or his or her duly authorized designee. See Michigan Laws 388.1923
  • State university: means a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 388.1951
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Superintendent of public instruction: means the superintendent of public instruction described in section 3 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. See Michigan Laws 388.1951
  • supervisor: means an individual who supervises an eligible designated recipient defined in section 3(2) and to whom the following apply, as applicable:
    •     (i) For an individual who is supervising, as described in this subdivision, a designated recipient who is working toward obtaining a preliminary school psychologist certificate described in subdivision (c)(i) or (ii) or a school psychologist certificate described in subdivision (c)(iii), the individual providing supervision maintains a school psychologist certificate described in subdivision (c)(iii) during the supervision. See Michigan Laws 388.1951
  • Taxable value: means the value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211. See Michigan Laws 388.1923
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o