Thompson v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange

(for reversal). The question presented is whether social security disability benefits that would not be paid to the dependents of a person injured in an automobile accident but for income lost as a result of the accident are required by § 3109(1) of the no-fault automobile liability act to be coordinated with work-loss benefits payable under the no-fault act. We would hold that coordination is required, and that social security disability payments to dependents are required to be subtracted from work-loss benefits.

*615The purpose of social security disability payments is income replacement. Such…