Murphy v. City of Pontiac

Plaintiffs Una Murphy and Dennis Graves, in these consolidated cases, appeal decisions of the Worker’s Compensation Appellate Commission (wcac), which allowed the City of Pontiac to coordinate their worker’s disability compensation benefits with disability pension benefits pursuant to § 354 of the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act, MCL 418.354; MSA 17.237(354). We affirm.

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Plaintiff Murphy worked for the city from February 4, 1953, until March 1, 1985, when she quit work because of work-related carpal tunnel syndrome and knee injuries. The city voluntarily paid worker’s compensation…