Crowe v. City of Detroit

The significant issue in these consolidated appeals is whether the pension benefits received by the plaintiffs are “like benefits” for purposes of subsection 161(l)(c) of the Worker’s Disabil ity Compensation Act (WDCA), MCL 418.161(1)(c); MSA 17.237(161)(l)(c). The three plaintiffs are police officers who received disabling injuries in the course of their employment before they attained twenty-five years of service as police officers and before they reached the age of fifty-five. Each plaintiff accepted “duty disability pension” benefits under the retirement plan adopted in defendant’s city…