Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Labor and Economic Opportunity
Workers Compensation Agency
Workers' Disability Compensation Appeals Commission
Section R. 418.68 - Motion practice

(1) All motions must be in writing.

(2) A party filing a motion shall provide all other parties with a copy of the motion at the time of filing and shall certify to the commission that the party has done so.

(3) A party has 21 days from the date the motion was filed with the commission to file a response to the motion, and shall certify that a copy of the response has been provided to all other parties. The commission may consider a request to extend the time to file a response to a motion, if the request is filed before the motion is submitted to the panel for disposition. Such a request must be made in the form of a motion.

(4) After the expiration of the time for filing a response to a motion, the motion will be submitted to a panel for disposition.

(5) A motion or response to a motion representing the existence of facts not in the record or not within the personal knowledge of the signer of the motion or response must be supported by an affidavit signed by an individual with such personal knowledge, or those factual assertions may be disregarded.