Crowley v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange

The issue in this case is whether a provision of Michigan’s no-fault act, which authorizes a deduction of governmental benefits from no-fault benefits, permits an insurer to deduct the government’s payment of a serviceman’s medical care from amounts payable under the applicable no-fault policy. We would hold that the plaintiff’s military health plan constitutes "other health and accident coverage” within the meaning of § 3109a. Therefore, payments from the United States Navy and the Veterans Administration should not be set off from amounts payable under the applicable no-fault policy. We…