Minster v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the trial court’s judgment of no cause of action in favor of defendant, which also authorized defendant to subtract $1,723 from other benefits that might be due and owing to plaintiff, reflecting the overpayment of work-loss benefits that defendant made to plaintiff’s decedent. We affirm.

The unique issue presented in this case is whether the decedent’s social security disability benefits may be deducted both from the disability benefits that he received through his employer’s self-funded disability plan 1 that is controlled by the Employee Retirement Income…