Noble v. Ford Motor Co.

In this workers’ compensation case defendants, Ford Motor Company and the Silicosis & Dust Disease Fund, appeal by leave granted from a Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board order requiring defendants to pay plaintiff death benefits due to the death of her husband. We reverse the award of death benefits and hold, based on the factual findings of the appeal board, that plaintiff did not establish the necessary proximate causal connection between decedent’s work-related injury and later death to entitle her to death benefits under MCL 418.375; MSA 17.237(375).

Plaintiffs decedent worked for…