Unless allowed to recover economic damages in his lawsuit, he would be forced to repay the federal government out of his noneconomic recovery. North , supra at 728-729. However, a plain reading of the statute confounds this argument. Here, the door was equipment permanently mounted on the vehicle, and plaintiff was lifting property from the vehicle in an unloading process. Great Lakes Ins , supra at 599.
Federal law preempts Michigan law.
Therefore, we cannot hold that the federal government's lien is unenforceable under the no-fault statute. Sibley , supra at 170.