The Michigan Supreme Court has rejecting the plaintiff’s appeal in HARRIS v GENERAL MOTORS.

By Gerald (Jerry) Marcinkoski

The Michigan Supreme Court has issued the attached order summarily rejecting the plaintiff’s appeal in HARRIS v GENERAL MOTORS, a case where we had filed an amicus curiae brief. This is the case where the employee fainted in the employer washroom, struck his head on the tiled concrete floor, and died four days later. Benefits were denied at every level on the basis that, while the accident happened at work, it did not happen because of work. The employee did not trip over anything, was not overcome by fumes, etc. The precise reason why he fainted was never determined.