(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)Major changes in Michigan’s car insurance system don’t apply to people who were catastrophically injured before a 2019 law kicked in, the state Supreme Court said Monday in a decision that delivers critical relief to thousands of people counting on long-term benefits. But a new state law set a fee schedule and a cap on reimbursements. AdvertisementThe Supreme Court, however, said a “vested contractual right” to ongoing benefits “cannot be stripped away or diminished,” especially when lawmakers failed to declare an intent to do so when they changed the law. “He can’t eat, he can’t cook, he can’t drive,” Ruedisueli said. When the law changed, and care rates were reduced, he said he lost caregivers and was shuttled from facility to facility.
