Corbett v. Plymouth Township

I cannot agree with the majority’s interpretation of MCL 418.354; MSA 17.237(354) that (1) an employee’s lump-sum pension payment is coordinated with his weekly worker’s compensation payments by amortizing the lump sum over his life expectancy, and (2) an employer cannot coordinate an employee’s lump-sum payment from a *556pension that he places into an Individual Retirement Account (ira) until the time he would have been obliged to accept payment under his pension or retirement program if he had not cashed out his pension. Although I appreciate the difficulty in applying the language of § 354 to…