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BOWER v. WHITEHALL LEATHER CO.

Docket No. 64020, (Calendar No. 5).

412 Mich. 172 (1981)

312 N.W.2d 640

BOWER v. WHITEHALL LEATHER COMPANY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 23, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCroskey, Libner, Van Leuven, Feldman, Cochrane & Brock for plaintiff.

Landman, Luyendyk, Latimer, Clink & Robb (by Jon D. Vander Ploeg) for defendant Whitehall Leather Company.

Amicus Curiae:

Miller, Cohen, Martens & Sugerman, P.C. (by Bruce A. Miller and Renate Klass; Jorden Rossen, Associate General Counsel, of counsel), for International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America.

BLAIR MOODY, JR., J.

The issue presented in this case is whether a partially disabled worker must forfeit all rights to workers' disability benefits because he will not leave a job in Florida to accept his former employer's offer of favored work when (1) he is physically able to perform the work; (2) the employer did not offer the work until the day of the hearing on the disability claim, nearly one year after the submission of that claim; and (3) the worker, in the...

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