Dean v. Chrysler Corp.

434 Mich. 655 (1990)

455 N.W.2d 699

DEAN

v.

CHRYSLER CORPORATION

Docket No. 84065, (Calendar No. 7).

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Argued November 7, 1989.

Decided May 15, 1990.

Mancini, Schreuder, Kline & Conrad, P.C. (by Roger R. Kline), for the plaintiff.

Lacey & Jones (by Stephen Jay Schwartz) for the defendant.

GRIFFIN, J.

Plaintiff seeks workers' compensation[1] benefits for injuries incurred in an automobile accident while traveling from home to her doctor's office where she was to receive treatment for a prior work-related compensable injury. Nearly half a century ago, in Rucker v Michigan Smelting…