Maner v. Ford Motor Co.

These consolidated appeals present the question whether certain interim disability and wage-replacement benefits, paid or caused to be paid by an employer to a disabled employee while his claim for workers’ compensation is pending, may be credited against the employer’s obligation when workers’ compensation is later awarded.

Today our Court answers this question in peremptory fashion by adopting an opinion of a special panel of the Court of Appeals that provides little in the way of analysis or reasoning except to assert that the controlling provision, § 811 of the Workers’ Disability…