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SWEATT v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Docket No. 226194.

637 N.W.2d 811 (2001)

247 Mich. App. 555

Ronald G. SWEATT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided September 25, 2001, at 9:10 a.m.

Released for Publication December 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelman, Loria, Will, Harvey & Thompson (by James P. Harvey), Detroit, for Ronald G. Sweatt.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and George H. Weller and Charles Jones, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Department of Corrections.

Before: GRIFFIN, P.J., and NEFF and WHITE, JJ.

NEFF, J.

In this worker's compensation case, we must decide whether a provision of the statutory scheme governing the operation of defendant Department of Corrections (DOC), M.C.L. § 791.205a, relieves defendant of its responsibility as an employer to pay disability benefits to plaintiff under the Worker's Disability Compensation Act (WDCA), M.C.L. § 418.101 et seq. I conclude that defendant is not relieved...

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