Court Opinion

ID: 9579596
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:56:38.131024+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:35:37.145610
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Cavanagh, J.
I dissent. I believe that the date of injury fixes a claimant’s entitlement to attendant or nursing care as provided by MCL 418.315(1); MSA 17.237(315)(1).
[A]mendatory acts affecting questions of eligibility have been applied prospectively so as to apply to injury dates occurring on or after the effective date of the provision. Thus, an injured worker’s right to benefíts accrues on the date of injury, and the law in effect at the time of the work-related injury is controlling. [Dow Chemical Co v Curtis, 431 Mich 471, 495; 430 NW2d 645 (1988) (Cavanagh, J., dissenting) (citations omitted, emphasis added).]
Here, as in Dow Chemical, it is on the date of injury that the injured worker’s rights became fixed because it is the injury itself that gives rise to the entitlement to benefits.
Accordingly, the decision of the Court of Appeals *159in Riza should be reversed and the decisions in Mullins and Sokolek should be affirmed. An injured worker’s right to benefits accrues on the date of injury, and the law in effect at the time of the work-related injury is controlling.