Lincoln v. General Motors Corp.

On remand from the Supreme Court for consideration as on leave granted, 455 Mich 852 (1997), defendant Second Injury Fund appeals a decision of the Worker’s Compensation Appellate Commission affirming a magistrate’s modification of plaintiff’s benefit award. We affirm.

Plaintiff sustained a work-related injury in 1966 while employed by defendant General Motors Corporation and was awarded total and permanent disability benefits on the basis of the loss of the industrial use of both legs. Plaintiff remained disabled after the expiration of the eight hundred-week statutory period of presumed…