Seay v. Spartan Aggregate, Inc

This consolidated appeal comes to this Court by leave granted from a Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board decision dated January 8, 1988. The wcab ruled that Michigan Mutual Insurance Company (defendant), the workers’ compensation insurance carrier in this case, was only entitled to reimbursement from the economic loss damages received by plaintiff in his third-party recovery and that defendant could not recover, by way of a lien, the entire proceeds plaintiff and his wife, Betty, had received in settlement of a third-party tort claim. We reverse.

The relevant facts are not disputed. In 1974,…