Legal Opinion · Dissent

Gregory v. Transamerica Insurance

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided August 7, 1986No. Docket 75490Published

1DissentCavanagh, J.

The majority holds that a no-fault insurer’s liability for personal protection insurance benefits should be offset by the amount of workers’ compensation benefits the injured employee would have received if he had not entered into a redemption agreement. The majority reaches this conclusion on the basis of cases which we believe are factually distinguishable. We *637would hold that where there is a legitimate dispute between an injured employee and a workers’ compensation carrier, and the parties in good faith enter into a redemption agreement, only the amount of workers’ compensation benefits…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Mathis v. Interstate Motor Freight SystemMichigan Supreme Court · 1980
  2. Perez v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1984
  3. Jarosz v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance ExchangeMichigan Supreme Court · 1984
  4. Davis v. Auto-Owners InsuranceMichigan Court of Appeals · 1982
  5. Thacker v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance ExchangeMichigan Court of Appeals · 1982

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