ACHTENBERG v. CITY OF EAST LANSING

Docket Nos. 73656, 74036. (Calendar Nos. 25, 26).

421 Mich. 765 (1985)

364 N.W.2d 277

ACHTENBERG v. CITY OF EAST LANSING. SPEARS v. CITY OF HAZEL PARK.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sablich, Ryan, Bobay & Kaechele, P.C. (by Theodore P. Ryan), for plaintiffs Achtenberg.

Sam W. Thomas (E.R. Whinham, of counsel) for plaintiff Spears.

Smith, Haughey, Rice & Roegge (by Lance R. Mather) for defendants City of East Lansing and Michigan Mutual Insurance Company.

Charfoos & Krut, P.C. (by Myron B. Charfoos), for defendants City of Hazel Park and Michigan Mutual Liability Insurance Company.


Rehearing denied in Achtenberg, 422 Mich. 1202.

CAVANAGH, J.

We consolidated these cases1 to resolve a conflict within the Court of Appeals regarding the applicability of the statutory presumption of work-related personal injury found in MCL 418.405; MSA 17.237(405). Compare Spears v Hazel Park, 131 Mich.App. 457; 346 N.W.2d 340 (1984), with

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