Wallace v. Consolidated Freightways

This appeal involves the jurisdiction of the Michigan Bureau of Workers’ Disability Compensation. The question is whether the Bureau has jurisdiction pursuant to Michigan’s Workers’ Disability Compensation Act over a disability claim filed by a nonresident who was injured while working in Michigan. MCL 418.101 et seq.; MSA 17.237(101) et seq. The appeal is from a Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (wcab) order which held that the wcab was without jurisdiction to consider plaintiff’s petition for disability benefits. Plaintiff argues that the wcab erred as a matter of law in finding no…