Court Opinion

ID: 9720069
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:14:47.16192+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:12.835703
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Souris, J.
(concurring in affirmance in part, reversal in part). I am not persuaded plaintiff has borne his burden of proving the absence of a rea*369sonable basis for the maximum limitation appearing in our workmen’s compensation act upon benefits paid for death or disability resulting from industrial silicosis. Nor do I believe that defendants, distinguished from plaintiff, are in any position to complain about the appeal board’s order granting plaintiff reimbursement of medical expenses for the use and benefit of the county sanatorium, which incurred those expenses in plaintiff’s behalf. Finally, the appeal board’s award of interest upon all past due benefits from due date until paid was correct for the reasons I set forth in my opinion in the case of Drake v. Norge Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, 367 Mich 464.
For the foregoing reasons, I concur in the disposition made of this case by Mr. Justice Dethmers.
Otis M. Smith, J., concurred with Souris, J.