Can I seek damages or compensation to the one who hit me?

It may depend on whether he has assets from which a judgment can be collected. If you were in a vehicle, the uninsured motorist coverage on your vehicle should provide some compensation.

Yes, but the real question is can you collect the damages? It's probably simpler to just make an insurance claim and let the insurance company worry about getting their money back. Good luck.

Maybe so, maybe not. go to the courthouse and see if he has any real estate listed in his name (not husband and wife, just his name only) Go to the tax office and the Register of deeds office and check. You can engage an investigator who will check computer sources and see perhaps what his assets are and whether he has been sued by others or whether there are tax liens against him/ Usually someone who does not have insurance has nothing to lose.

Since the person that hit you had no car insurance, usually you will need to make a "UI" (Uninsured) motorist claim with your own insurance. UI is part of what you pay for each month. Contact an injury lawyer to help you make the UI claim.

Check your own car insurance policy and see if you purchased Uninsured Motorist coverage. If you did, you make the claim you'd normally make against the other driver/owner against your UM coverage. You will still have to prove the fault/negligence of the other party, as well as their lack of insurance and the seriousness of your injuries, but your UM coverage essentially takes the place of the insurance the other owner/driver should have had. Of course, you still need to check and be sure the other vehicle wasn't titled to someone other than the driver and that that someone also didn't have insurance coverage. If there is insurance on an owner, then it would apply vs. your UM coverage. As you indicate, even without insurance on the owner/driver of the negligent motor vehicle, you may still be able to collect any Judgment from them if they have assets that are available to satisfy all, or part, of same. You would have to hire an investigative company to do an asset search in this regard and/or conduct a creditor's exam of the defendant(s) once you have a Judgment. You can also think of a Dramshop action against any person/corporation that served the other driver, if they served him to the point of visible intoxication and continued to serve him thereafter. The dramshop law has very specific notice requirements and time limits, so you'd be best to consult local Michigan counsel on that issue as the timing related to a 2011 crash could be a problem for you. I don't know that workers compensation would have anything to do with this unless you were on the job when the crash happened.