Court Opinion

ID: 9675494
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:55:37.651664+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:34.937252
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G. R. Cook, J.
(concurring in part; dissenting in part). I agree that benefits received by plaintiffs pursuant to MCL 500.3108; MSA 24.13108 are not to be reduced by the amount the decedent would have paid in taxes. I further agree that plaintiffs’ benefits under § 3108 should be reduced by the amount of expenses avoided by reason of the decedent’s death.
However, I respectfully dissent from the majority holding that MCL 500.3109(1); MSA 24.13109(1) *183is unconstitutional. I express my agreement with those panels of this Court which have upheld the validity of § 3109(1). Greene v State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins Co, 83 Mich App 505; 268 NW2d 703 (1978), Smart v Citizens Mutual Ins Co, 83 Mich App 30; 268 NW2d 273 (1978).
Amendatory Order
On April 25, 1979, the following amendatory order was entered by the Court:
"In this cause, a motion for leave to file delayed application for hearing and delayed application for rehearing have been filed by plaintiffs-appellees, and no answer in opposition thereto having been filed, and due consideration thereof having been had by the Court,
"It is ordered that the motion for leave to file delayed application for rehearing be, and the same hereby is granted.
"It is further ordered that the delayed application for rehearing be, and the same hereby is denied.
"It is further ordered, on the Court’s own motion, that the Court’s opinion in the within case, released January 17, 1979, to the extent that our holding held MCL 500.3109(1); MSA 24.13109(1) unconstitutional and disallowed the reduction of plaintiffs’ survivors’ benefits by the amount of social security benefits received, be and the same hereby is reversed on the basis of O’Donnell v State Farm Insurance, 404 Mich 524; 273 NW2d 829 (1979).
s/ William R. Beasley Presiding Judge”