Drake v. Norge Division, Borg-Warner Corp.

Weekly compensation benefits and medical expenses were awarded to plaintiff by the workmen’s compensation appeal board in October of 1960 on a claim filed in 1958 for an occupation-connected disabling heart attack which occurred in 1953, weekly benefits to begin as of the last day of plaintiff’s employment in 1953. The appeal board awarded interest on all past due amounts at the rate of 5% per annum. We granted leave to appeal limited to review of the appeal board’s determination of the time when interest began to accrue.

In Wilson v. Doehler-Jarvis, 358 Mich 510, which involved a claim under…