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Michigan exclusive workers' compensation administrative process trumps federal court RICO and fraud claims

• Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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• USA
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• October 12 2010

In a comprehensive and thoughtful opinion, a federal district court has dismissed, with prejudice, a RICO action contending that a self-insured, its third party administrator and a physician schemed to fraudulently deny workers’ compensation benefits allegedly owed to a number of claimants under the Michigan Workers’ Disability Compensation Act (the “WDCA”), Mich. Comp. Laws 418.101 et. seq. Brown v. Cassens Transport Co., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101660 (E.D. Mich. September 27, 2010