Jarosz v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange

This appeal concerns the coordination of social security retirement and no-fault benefits.

The majority holds that social security retirement benefits are not "[bjenefits provided or required to be provided under the laws of any state or the federal government”, required by § 3109(1) of the no-fault automobile liability act to be subtracted from work-loss benefits payable by a no-fault insurer to an injured person.1

The majority distinguishes social security retirement benefits from workers’ compensation benefits, required to be subtracted in Mathis v Interstate Motor Freight System, 408 Mich…