Welton v. Carriers Insurance

In this case we are called upon to decide whether the "one year back” limit on recovery of no-fault insurance benefits contained in MCL 500.3145(1); MSA 24.13145(1) should be tolled by the filing of a workers’ compensation claim for the same injuries, where the same carrier insures both liabilities. The circuit court found tolling unwarranted under the facts of this case, while the Court of Appeals, adhering to one of two conflicting lines of authority in that Court, rejected a reading of the no-fault statute that would even allow such a tolling. We affirm on the basis that, assuming arguendo…