Utility Workers Union v. Consumers Power Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

PHILIP PRATT, District Judge.

The individual plaintiffs are former employees of defendant Consumers Power Company and participants in defendant Plan who currently have their privately funded retirement benefits reduced because of deductions or offsets for payments re ceived under the Michigan Workers’ Compensation Act. The individual plaintiffs seek to represent a class of similarly situated Plan participants. 1 The Union, which is the authorized collective…