Pulver v. Dundee Cement Co.

I respectfully dissent. While the majority’s opinion has much to recommend it, I am *84troubled over the fact that it does not take adequate account of what I believe to be an overriding policy of worker’s compensation law, to wit: an employee’s good-faith duty to accept reasonable offers of favored work.

As this Court has clearly recognized, the legislative amendments of the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act in the last decade were intended to narrow eligibility qualifications.

[W]e believe that our decision today is consistent with the intent of the Legislature manifested by its reform…