Court Opinion

ID: 9851999
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:22:48.341172+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:20.985338
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Coleman, J.
(concurring). I believe that corrected vision is the standard by which loss of an eye is to be measured in all workers’ compensation cases for the reasons explained in the dissent in Hakala v Burroughs Corp (On Rehearing), 399 Mich 162, 172-175; 249 NW2d 20 (1976), and Hilton v Oldsmobile Division of General Motors Corp, 390 Mich 43, 45-56; 210 NW2d 316 (1973). Corrective lenses restored more than 20% vision in plaintiff’s left eye after his 1967 operation. As a consequence, plaintiff at that time did not lose his left *314eye as a matter of law and therefore had an eye to lose in the 1971 accident. On this basis I agree that the Second Injury Fund should be required to pay differential benefits and total and permanent disability compensation pursuant to MCLA 418.521; MSA 17.237(521).