DiBenedetto v. West Shore Hospital

In this case, we must decide whether the Worker’s Compensation Appellate Commission (wcac) properly analyzed two statutory provisions of the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act (wdca), MCL 418.101 et seq.-, MSA 17.237(101) et seq. The first provision allows an injured employee the opportunity to request an increased benefit rate after two years of continuous disability if the employee’s earnings would have been expected to increase because of certain enumerated factors. MCL 418.356(1); MSA 17.237(356)(1). The second provision requires termination of an injured employee’s wage loss benefits…