Madison v. City of Detroit

Plaintiff appeals as of right from a grant of summary disposition for defendant 1 and dismissal of her intentional tort claim on the basis of governmental immunity. Plaintiff asserts that the trial court erred in failing to find an intentional tort exception to governmental immunity in worker’s compensation cases. We agree and reverse.

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Plaintiff was employed by defendant’s transportation department in 1988. Her assignment was to collect money from bus fare collection boxes. Defendant provided a truck with a crane to lift the large metal boxes, which held thousands of coins. When the truck…