Struble v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange

New and complex legislation, such as 1972 PA 294, often provides a fertile breeding ground for interpretative litigation. The present case is illustrative of that situation as this Court is called upon to interpret the intention of the Legislature when it enacted MCL 500.3107(b); MSA 24.13107(b). That legislation reads in pertinent part as follows:

"Work loss consisting of loss of income from work an injured person would have performed during the first 3 years after the date of the accident if he had not been injured and expenses not exceeding $20.00 per day, reasonably incurred in obtaining…