Cohoon v. Fruehauf Trailer Corp.

Plaintiffs’ appeal is before us on remand by the Supreme Court for consideration as on leave granted of an order of the Worker’s Compensation Appellate Commission (wcac) upholding a magistrate’s denial of plaintiffs’ petition for continuing dependency benefits for decedent’s thirty-six-year-old mentally incapacitated son. 452 Mich 857 (1996). We affirm and hold that the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act (wdca), MCL 418.101 et seq.) MSA 17.237(101) et seq., provides no authority to extend the five-hundred-week benefits period for dependents over the age provided in MCL 418.335; MSA…