Tidey v. Riverside Foundry & Galvanizing Co.

We accept and decide defendants’ counter-stated question 3:

“Where an employee has drawn maximum disability -benefits during concurrent disabilities in his lifetime, and subsequently dies from causes directly related to one of the injuries producing' one such disability, does the Michigan workmen’s compensation act permit a new award of maximum benefits to Ms dependents based upon the fact of such death?”

From the very outset controlling section 12 of part 2 of the workmen’s compensation law has provided that the right to claim dependency benefits is derivative from, and accordingly is limited…