Adams v. Nat'l Bank of Detroit

The question presented is whether the exclusive remedy provision of the Workers’ Disability Compensation Act1 precludes the Adams estate from maintaining causes of action against the National Bank of Detroit arising out of the arrest of Michael Bret Adams.

Adams, an employee of the National Bank of Detroit, was erroneously arrested on a charge of making fraudulent withdrawals from nbd. The withdrawals had actually been made by another nbd employee, Michael Ansara Adams.

*333Adams was arrested after Mary Miller Mach, an nbd employee, had erroneously given the police his address and phone number. The…