Michales v. Morton Salt Co.

In this case we must determine whether plaintiff’s high-frequency, work-related hearing loss establishes a limitation of his "wage earning capacity in work suitable” to his "qualifications and training,” where plaintiff continued to perform his preinjury job until he left because of a noncompensable, supervening illness. MCL 418.401(1); MSA 17.237(401)(1). We hold that plaintiff has not met his burden of establishing a limitation of wage-earning capacity in work suitable to his qualifications and training and is therefore not compensably disabled within the definition of the statute. We…