Crowe v. City of Detroit

I am unpersuaded that the plaintiffs continued to receive “like benefits” as defined by MCL 418.161(l)(c) after reaching the twenty-five-year reduction. Therefore, I must respectfully dissent from the majority’s holding. Moreover, I cannot agree with the majority’s implication that, once an employee has chosen to receive benefits under a municipal plan, he is thereafter precluded from challenging the benefits he receives as not being “like benefits” under the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act. I would hold that the benefits the plaintiffs received before the twenty-five-year reduction were…