(dissenting). The question presented is whether and to what extent workers’ compensation weekly payments that were due and payable before, on, or after January 1, 1982, the effective date of 1981 PA 194,1 which increased the interest *16rate on payments paid pursuant to an award from 5% to 12% per annum, bear interest at the higher rate.
The majority holds that the increase in interest rate is fully retroactive to the date each weekly payment was due if the compensation is paid pursuant to an award of a hearing referee, the WCAB, or a court "entered after January 1, 1982”.2
We would hold (i) that weekly payments that were due and payable before January 1, 1982, bear interest at 5% until December 31, 1981, and thereafter bear interest at 12% until paid whether or net the award was entered before, on, or after January 1, 1982, and (ii) that weekly payments that became or become due and payable on or after January. 1, 1982, bear interest at 12% until paid even though the award was entered before January 1, 1982.
I
Since 1943, the workers’ compensation act has *17provided that workers’ compensation benefits become payable 14 days after the employer has notice or knowledge of the disability or death, on which date all compensation then accrued shall be paid, and that thereafter benefits are payable weekly.3
In 1960, this Court held that interest at the legal rate of 5% per annum was payable on a judgment entered by the circuit court on a workers’ compensation award.4 Since that decision, interest has been required to be paid by employers and insurers at 5% on workers’ compensation awards without regard to whether a judgment has *18been sought from or entered by a circuit court.5
In December, 1981, the Legislature passed a number of acts amending the workers’ compensation act.6 One of those acts (1981 PA 194) amended § 801 (providing that compensation becomes payable on the 14th day and thereafter is payable weekly) by the addition of the following language increasing the interest rate from 5% to 12% per annum:
"(5) When weekly compensation is paid pursuant to an award of a hearing referee, the board, or a court, interest on the compensation shall be paid at the rate of 12% per annum from the date each payment was due, until paid”.
The amendatory act, signed by the Governor on December 30, 1981, with "immediate effect”, stated that "[t]his amendatory act shall take effect January 1, 1982”.7
The opinion of the Court states that the words, in the amendatory act, "from the date each payment was due”, are "plain, certain and unambiguous”8 and concludes that interest at 12% is payable retroactively from the weekly dates that compensation "was due” if the award was entered after January 1, 1982 — in Selk from weekly dates beginning in 1978, and in Furman and Kelly from weekly dates beginning in 1976.
The majority also reads a pre-January 1, 1982 award limitation into the act although the amen-datory language does not "plainly”, "certainly”, or *19"unambiguously” provide that it is a prerequisite to the accrual of interest at the higher 12% rate that the award be entered on or after January 1, 1982. It reads the amendatory language as if it included the words "entered after January 1, 1982”:
"When weekly compensation is paid pursuant to an award of a hearing referee, the board, or a court [entered after January 1, 1982], interest * * * shall be paid at the rate of 12% per annum from the date each payment was due, until paid.” (Bracketed words and emphasis supplied.)
The opinion of the Court does not state a reason for reading a pre-January 1, 1982 award limitation into the act.9
*20II
An act of the Legislature that is given immediate effect "takes effect” when it becomes a law. If it is not given immediate effect, it becomes effective 90 days after the end of the legislative session.10
Some acts, however, state a specific effective date (i) between the "immediate effect” date and the 90th day, or (ii) after the 90th day. When the Legislature states a specific effective date, it thereby indicates its intent to limit the retroactivity of the act.
It appears, because a pre-January 1, 1982 award limitation has been read into the act, that the majority reads the January 1, 1982 specific effective date as evidencing a legislative intent to limit the retroactivity or effectiveness of the amendment to payments of compensation pursuant to an award entered after January 1, 1982. We would read the specific effective date as evidencing a legislative intent to limit the retroactivity by allowing interest at the higher rate only where the interest accrues on or after January 1, 1982.
A
The amendatory act is concerned with the rate of interest. The amendatory act provides for an increase in the rate of interest from 5% to 12% per annum. The specific effective date concerns the date that the change in the rate of interest shall *21become effective. The date stated is January 1, 1982.
We conclude that interest that accrues before January 1, 1982, accrues at the 5% rate, and that interest that accrues on or after January 1, 1982, accrues at the 12% rate.
B
Neither the date of the award nor the date of payment11 has any homology with the date the change in interest rate becomes effective. The decision of the majority to make the date of the award determinative of entitlement to an increase in the interest rate will produce asymmetric and adventitious results.
The amendatory act provides that interest is payable at 12% from the date each payment is due when "compensation is paid pursuant to an award of a hearing referee, the board, or a court”. (Emphasis supplied.)12
Most awards are "awards of’ a hearing referee or the WCAB. It is rare for a court to make or enter an award. Also, although the WCAB may, as in Kelly, award compensation denied by a hearing referee, that is the exception. Ordinarily, as in Selk and. Furman, a hearing referee’s award is affirmed by the WCAB.13 A determination by the WCAB is left undisturbed when the Court of Appeals, or both the Court of Appeals and this Court, deny leave to appeal or affirm the WCAB after a grant of leave to appeal. It is unusual for a court to award compensation.
It appears, under the majority construction stat*22ing a pre-January 1, 1982 award limitation, that where an award was entered before January 1, 1982, and an appeal was thereafter taken that is still pending, interest will accrue at 5% — during the 2-1/3 years or longer the appeal has been pending — on weekly installments that have or shall become due and payable on or after January 1, 1982.14
Similarly, under the majority construction, it appears that if a referee should at some future date, say, a year from next week, order that payment of compensation be stopped15 on a pre-Janu-ary 1, 1982 "award of’ a hearing referee or the WCAB and that order were to be subsequently reversed by the WCAB or a court, interest would only be payable at 5% for the period during the pendency of the appeal because the award, pursuant to which "compensation is paid”, would, upon reversal of the stop order, continue to be a pre-January 1, 1982 award.16_
*23The Court reads a pre-January 1, 1982 award limitation into the act although it posits that the awards in Selk, Furman, and Kelly were entered after January 1, 1982. There are approximately one hundred cases being held in abeyance pursuant to orders entered by this Court where the award is "an award of’ a hearing referee or the WCAB entered before January 1, 1982. There are a large number of pre-January 1, 1982 "award of’ a hearing referee or the WCAB cases being held in administrative abeyance, i.e., without formal orders of the Court.
This Court should not, in the instant post-January 1, 1982 award cases, decide whether the WCAB and the Court of Appeals17 correctly read into the act a pre-January 1, 1982 award limitation. A ruling thereon is not necessary to decision in the instant cases.
C
To limit the meaning of the January 1, 1982 effective date language so that it serves only to deny retroactivity of the 12% interest rate where *24the award was paid before January 1, 1982, would be to deny the effective date language of meaning.18 It would mean that the effective date language affects only an award — if there is such an award — paid after the Governor signed the amen-datory act on December 30 and before the close of business the following day, December 31, 1981, where, despite payment, the issue is still open, pending on appeal, or under reservation of rights.19
Ill
The opinion of the Court offers the following reasons for the conclusion that the increase in interest rate is retroactive where the award is entered after January 1, 1982:
(A) "[T]he statute is plain, certain and unambiguous”. The amendatory act states that interest is payable at the 12% rate "from the date each payment was due, until paid”. (Emphasis supplied.) The "conclusion is compelling that [the amendatory act] was unambiguously intended to award interest from the date payment 'was due’ ”.20
(B) The Legislature "failed to limit the increase in interest to the effective date of the statute”21 as *25it did in amending § 601322 of the Revised Judicature Act, providing for the rate of interest on a money judgment. There the Legislature specifically provided that interest shall be calculated until the June 1, 1980 effective date of the amendatory act at the old 6% rate and thereafter at the new 12% rate.
(C) It appears from rules of statutory construction and this Court’s decision in Ballog v Knight Newspapers, Inc, 381 Mich 527, 541; 164 NW2d 19 (1969), that "interest rates relate to a remedy or mode of procedure” and that "interest is but an incident and not the essence of a right or liability”.23
A
In using the word "was” in the amendatory act, stating that interest shall be paid at the 12% rate "from the date each payment was due, until paid” (emphasis supplied), the Legislature was apparently expressing the proper time relationship between the date on which the right to the payment arose and the subsequent date that payment pursuant to an award would be made. Because interest, when payable at all, is always payable for the period between the date the substantive right to payment accrues and the date interest is awarded or is paid, interest is in a sense inherently retroactive. The use of "was” expresses that inherent characteristic of interest.
It has been said that "expressions of the plain meaning rule may be a kind of verbal table thumping to express or reinforce confidence in an interpretation arrived at on other grounds instead *26of a reason for it”. 2A Sands, Sutherland Statutory-Construction (4th ed), § 46.01, p 49.24
B
The specificity of § 6013 of the Revised Judicature Act may have been occasioned by the need to differentiate between actions based on written instruments and other actions in respect to the increase in the interest rate.25 The specificity does *27not, therefore, support either the inference drawn by the majority or the view that the Legislature intended that interest accrue at 6% on a tort judgment until June 1, 1980, but at 12% on disputed workers’ compensation payments from 1976 in Kelly and Furman and from 1978 in Selk.
C
The Court’s reliance on rules of construction is not persuasive. Judge Richard Posner recently observed that Professor Llewellyn had correctly criticized the canons of construction by forcefully demonstrating "that for every canon one might bring to bear on a point there is an equal and opposite canon, so that the outcome of the interpretive process depends on the choice between paired opposites — a choice the canons themselves do not illuminate. (You need a canon for choosing between competing canons, and there isn’t any.)” Posner, Statutory Interpretation in the Classroom *28and in the Courtroom, 50 U Chi L Rev 800, 806 (1983).
It has also been observed:
"Judicial opinions are replete with vapid verbaliza-tions of standards which purport to govern decision as to the legal permissibility of retroactive application of new law. On close examination, however, most of them turn out to be little more than ways to restate the problem. Probably the most hackneyed example of such a rule is to the effect that a law cannot be retroactively applied to impair vested rights.” 2 Sands, Sutherland Statutory Construction (4th ed), § 41.05, p 260.
In Ballog, the Court was considering a statute that provided for the payment of prejudgment interest. Theretofore, prejudgment interest was obtainable as damages in some cases but not in others.26 If the statute were not retroactive, the courts would have been obliged to continue to draw increasingly fine and dubious distinctions among cases respecting the allowance of prejudgment interest until all actions filed before the effective date of the statute had finally been decided. Other courts that have dealt with the Ballog question have similarly concluded that a statute requiring payment of prejudgment interest should be given retroactive effect.27
The statute considered in Ballog (1965 PA 240) did not, in contrast with the amendatory act here being construed, state a specific effective date. This *29Court’s conclusion in Ballog that such a statute should be construed to have retroactive effect is defensible. The rules of construction invoked in reaching that conclusion are, however, neither applicable nor persuasive in this case where the issue is whether an increase in the interest rate is applicable to interest that accrued before a specific effective date.
IV
There does not appear to be any appellate decision28 holding that a statute increasing the rate of either prejudgment interest or interest on a judgment should be given retroactive effect. All the cases concerning an increase in the prejudgment interest rate and some of the cases concerning an increase in the postjudgment interest rate hold that interest accrues at the increased rate only from and after the effective date of the amenda-tory act.29 The other postjudgment increase in interest rate cases hold that interest accrues at the increased rate only on a judgment entered *30after the effective date of the act;30 because post-judgment interest accrues only on the judgment and not from the date of injury or breach, these cases defer the effectiveness of the increase in interest rate to a date on or after the effective date of the amendatory act.31 The majority’s holding that a statute increasing the prejudgment/award interest rate is effective as to interest that accrued before the effective date of the amendatory act appears to be unique.
V
This amendatory act, along with all but one of the other acts amending the workers’ compensation act that were enacted in December, 1981,32 concluded with the statement "[t]his amendatory act shall take effect January 1, 1982”. The Legislature thereby evidenced its intention that the increase in the interest rate would not become effective before January 1, 1982, and would affect only interest that accrues on and after January 1, 1982.
This amendatory act, providing for an increase in interest rate, like acts providing for an increase in workers’ compensation or other entitlement benefits, requires an increase in funding to pay for the increased cost. The Legislature generally indi*31cates, by stating a specific effective date, its intent that amounts payable for prior periods shall not be affected by an increase in benefits,33 taxes, or other governmentally mandated assessments. The Legislature did just that in the instant case in recognition that a change in a governmental benefit program requiring additional funding should not ordinarily be retroactive.
The Court should give meaning and effect to the legislative decision that the increase in interest rate would not be retroactive, but that it would be effective as to all interest that accrues on or after January 1, 1982.
VI
The Court has not addressed the other issues raised by the appellants in Kelly and Furman. It should either address them or dismiss the grant of leave to appeal thereon as improvident.
Kavanagh, J., concurred with Levin, J.Ante, p 15.
As originally enacted, subsequently amended, and re-enacted, the workers’ compensation act has provided for a delay in the commencement of compensation.
The original 1912 act provided that no compensation shall be paid for an injury that does not incapacitate the worker for at least two weeks, that compensation shall begin on the 15th day after injury, and that compensation shall be computed from the date of injury if the disability continues for at least eight weeks. 1912 (1st Ex Sess) PA 10; 1915 CL 5433. Two weeks was changed to one week, the 15th day to the 8th day, and 8 weeks to 6 weeks by 1919 PA 64; 1929 CL 8419, and 6 weeks to 4 weeks by 1943 PA 245; 1948 CL 412.3; MSA 17.153, and 4 weeks to 2 weeks by 1965 PA 44, now § 311 of the present act; 1969 PA 317, § 311; MCL 418.311; MSA 17.237(311).
In 1943 the following provision was added to the act:
"Compensation shall be paid promptly and directly to the person entitled thereto and shall become payable on the fourteenth day after the employer has notice or knowledge of the disability or death, on which date all compensation then accrued shall be paid. Thereafter compensation shall be paid in weekly installments.” 1943 PA 245; 1948 CL 413.5; MSA 17.178.
The language of the 1943 act was re-enacted as the opening sentences of § 801 of the present act. 1969 PA 317, § 801; MCL 418.801; MSA 17.237(801). In 1977, § 801 was amended to change the expression "shall become payable on the 14th day” to "shall become due and payable on the 14th day”, and new language (see fn 1) was added as subparagraphs (2)-(4).
This Court held that the circuit court was authorized to allow the legal rate of interest (5%) when it enters a judgment on a compensation award pursuant to part 3, § 13 of the act (MCL 413.13; MSA 17.187; subsequently re-enacted as §863 of the present act, MCL 418.863; MSA 17.237[863]). Wilson v Doehler-Jarvis Division of National Lead Co, 358 Mich 510; 100 NW2d 226 (1960).
See Drake v Norge Division, Borg-Warner Corp, 367 Mich 464; 116 NW2d 842 (1962); Solakis v Roberts, 395 Mich 13, 22; 233 NW2d 1 (1975).
See fn 32.
The full text of § 801, as set forth in the 1981 amendatory act, is set forth in fn 1.
Ante, p 8. See fn 9 for text.
A pre-January 1, 1982 award limitation might be seen by the majority as providing the January 1, 1982 effective date with meaning; but see fn 14.
Also, by affirming the Court of Appeals — which read such a limitation into the act (see fn 17) — the majority can adhere to "plain meaning”, "unambiguous language” analysis, which might appear anomalous if the Court of Appeals and this Court both state that the language of the amendatory act is clear and unambiguous and yet reach opposing conclusions regarding the meaning of the effective date language. The Court of Appeals said:
"These two provisions read together compel a finding that the amendment clearly and unambiguously requires that for all awards made after January 1, 1982, the 12% interest rate be computed by referring to the date payment became due without regard to the fact that payment may have become due prior to January 1, 1982. Since the language of the statute is clear and unambiguous, further interpretation is unnecessary.” Selk v Detroit Plastic Products, 120 Mich App 135, 143; 328 NW2d 15 (1982).
The majority states:
"We find that the statute is plain, certain and unambiguous, Grand Rapids v Crocker, 219 Mich 178, 182; 189 NW 221 (1922), and requires application, not interpretation. (Emphasis supplied.) Ante, p 8.
"Against this backdrop the conclusion is compelling that 1981 PA 194 was unambiguously intended to award interest from the date payment 'was due’.” (Emphasis supplied.) Ante, p 8.
"Unless this language is unclear, these observations are irrelevant to our task which is to give effect to the plain meaning of the language used.” (Emphasis supplied.) Ante, p 9.
*20See also fns 14 and 16.
"No act shall take effect until the expiration of 90 days from the end of the session at which it was passed, but the legislature may give immediate effect to acts by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to and serving in each house.” Const 1963, art 4, § 27.
See text accompanying fns 18-19.
See fn 1 and text accompanying fn 7.
See McAvoy v H B Sherman Co, 401 Mich 419, 439; 258 NW2d 414 (1977).
This result might be avoided by a decision holding that a denial of leave to appeal by the Court of Appeals or this Court transforms "an award of’ a hearing referee or "an award of’ the WCAB into "an award of’ a court. Such a decision might, however, be inconsistent with the rule that a denial of leave to appeal does not intimate anything regarding the court’s view of the merits of a decision. Frishett v State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins Co, 378 Mich 733, 734 (1966); Great Lakes Realty Corp v Peters, 336 Mich 325, 328-329; 57 NW2d 901 (1953); Malooly v York Heating & Ventilating Corp, 270 Mich 240, 247; 258 NW 622 (1935).
Adhering to the pre-January 1, 1982 award limitation and also — in the instant cases or in a later case — holding that a denial of leave to appeal transforms "an award of’ a hearing referee or the WCAB into "an award of’ a court might seem inconsistent with "plain” "unambiguous” meaning analysis. More importantly, such a holding would eliminate the pre-January 1, 1982 award limitation announced by the majority, and thus would deprive the January 1, 1982 specific effective date of meaning, because then all awards in all cases pending on appeal would become, upon denial or grant of leave to appeal, "an award of’ a court.
See also fns 9 and 16.
Such an order would be made pursuant to the procedures provided in 1979 AC, R 408.40.
This result might be avoided by a decision holding that the *23reversal of the referee’s stop order by the WCAB or by a court thereupon transforms a pre-January 1, 1982 award into "an award of’ the WCAB or a court.
See fns 9 and 14.
The Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board appears to have ruled in Selk that interest shall be computed at the higher 12% rate from the date each payment was due if the award was "granted after the effective date”. Selk v Detroit Plastic Products, 1982 WCABO 1, 3.
The Court of Appeals affirmed, stating that "for all awards made after January 1, 1982, the 12% interest rate [shall] be computed by referring to the date payment became due without regard to the fact that payment may have become due prior to January 1, 1982”. Selk v Detroit Plastic Products, fn 9 supra, p 143.
This Court affirms the Court of Appeals, stating that "where an employer pays compensation pursuant to an award of a hearing referee, the WCAB, or a court which is entered after January 1, 1982, interest shall be paid at 12% from the date each payment was due.” Ante, p 15.
There is not likely to be a case where the award was entered before January 1, 1982, and was subsequently paid and is nevertheless presently pending on appeal.
The effective date language was not needed to deny retroactivity to cases that had been closed by payment before the amendatory act became law. Surely, even absent a specific effective date, this Court would hold that interest did not accrue either at the old or the increased rate where the award had been paid — whether a day, or a month, or years — before December 30, 1981, when the amendatory act became law.
Ante, p 8.
Ante, p 9.
MCL 600.6013; MSA 27A.6013.
Ante, pp 10,11.
Similarly, see 3 Corbin, Contracts, § 542, p 108 ff.
Section 6013 of the Revised Judicature Act read as follows before it was amended by 1980 PA 134:
"Interest shall be allowed on any money judgment recovered in a civil action, such interest to be calculated from the date of filing the complaint at the rate of 6% per year unless the judgment is rendered on a written instrument having a higher rate of interest in which case interest shall be computed at the rate specified in the instrument if such rate was legal at the time the instrument was executed. In no case shall the rate exceed 7% per year after the date judgment is entered. In the discretion of the judge, if a bona fide written offer of settlement in a civil action based on tort is made by the party against whom the judgment is subsequently rendered and the offer of settlement is substantially identical or substantially more favorable to the prevailing party than the judgment, then no interest shall be allowed beyond the date the written offer of settlement is made.” MCL 600.6013; MSA 27A.6013.
1980 PA 134 amended § 6013 of the Revised Judicature Act to read as follows:
"(1) Interest shall be allowed on a money judgment recovered in a civil action, as provided in this section.
"(2) For complaints filed before June 1, 1980, in an action involving other than a written instrument having a rate of interest exceeding 6% per year, the interest on the judgment shall be calculated from the date of filing the complaint to June 1, 1980 at the rate of 6% per year and on and after June 1, 1980 to the date of satisfaction of the judgment at the rate of 12% per year compounded annually.
"(3) For complaints filed before June 1, 1980, in an action involving a written instrument having a rate of interest exceeding 6% per year, the interest on the judgment shall be calculated from the date of filing the complaint to the date of satisfaction of the judgment at the rate specified in the instrument if the rate was legal at the time the instrument was executed. However, the rate after the date judgment is entered shall not exceed the following:
"(a) Seven percent per year compounded annually for any period of time between the date judgment is entered and the date of satisfaction of the judgment which elapses before June 1, 1980.
*27"(b) Thirteen percent per year compounded annually for any period of time between the date judgment is entered and the date of satisfaction of the judgment which elapses after May 31, 1980.
"(4) For complaints filed on or after June 1, 1980, interest shall be calculated from the date of filing the complaint to the date of satisfaction of the judgment at the rate of 12% per year compounded annually unless the judgment is rendered on a written instrument having a higher rate of interest. In that case interest shall be calculated at the rate specified in the instrument if the rate was legal at the time the instrument was executed. The rate shall not exceed 13% per year compounded annually after the date judgment is entered.
"(5) If a bona fide written offer of settlement in a civil action based on tort is made by the party against whom the judgment is subsequently rendered and the offer of settlement is substantially identical or substantially more favorable to the prevailing party than the judgment, the court may order that interest shall not be allowed beyond the date the written offer of settlement is made.” MCL 600.6013; MSA 27A.6013.
1980 PA 134 further provided:
“This amendatory act shall take effect June 1, 1980.”
See Banish v City of Hamtramck, 9 Mich App 381, 393 ff; 157 NW2d 445 (1968).
Dep’t of Transportation v Delta Machine Products Co, 162 Ga App 252; 291 SE2d 104 (1982); Noe v Chicago, 56 Ill 2d 346; 307 NE2d 376 (1974); Bartlett v Heersche, 209 Kan 369; 496 P2d 1314 (1972); Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester v Nyhan, 110 NH 416; 270 A2d 906 (1970).
But see Watertown v Sullivan, 64 Misc 2d 493; 315 NYS2d 211 (1970).
White v St Louis S F R Co, 602 SW2d 748 (Mo App, 1980); Dependahl v Falstaff Brewing Corp, 653 F2d 1208 (CA 8, 1981); Ferry v Ferry, 201 Neb 595; 271 NW2d 450 (1978); Bd of Ed, Central School Dist No 5 v Sapsin, 35 AD2d 973; 317 NYS2d 918 (1970); In the Matter of Incorporated Village of Hempstead, 33 AD2d 1036; 308 NYS2d 798 (1970); Marx & Co, Inc v Diners Club, Inc, 405 F Supp 1 (SD NY, 1975); Kaufman v Chase Manhattan Bank, NA, 370 F Supp 279 (SD NY, 1974); Rachlin & Co v Tra-Mar, Inc, 33 AD2d 370; 308 NYS2d 153 (1970); Nelse Mortensen & Co, Inc v United States, 305 F Supp 470 (ED Wash, 1969); McBride v Superior Court, County of Maricopa, 130 Ariz 193; 635 P2d 178 (1981) (en banc); Camellia Corp v Cornell, 162 Ga App 362; 291 SE2d 556 (1982); Chicago, Rock Island & P R Co v Chicago B & Q R Co, 55 FRD 209 (1972); Ridge v Ridge, 572 SW2d 859 (Ky, 1978); Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v Kelso Corp, 294 Md 267; 449 A2d 406 (1982); Senn v Commerce-Manchester Bank, 603 SW2d 551 (Mo, 1980); Southeastern Freight Lines v Michelin Tire Corp, 279 SC 174; 303 SE2d 860 (1983).
Jones v Casey, 445 So 2d 873 (Ala, 1983); Dep’t of Transportation v Delta Machine Products Co, 162 Ga App 252; 291 SE2d 104 (1982); Camellia Corp v Cornell, 162 Ga App 362; 291 SE2d 556 (1982); Bartlett v Heersche, 209 Kan 369; 496 P2d 1314 (1972); Sunray D X Oil Co v Great Lakes Carbon Corp, 476 P2d 329 (Okla, 1970); Manley v Sammons Enterprises, Inc, 563 SW2d 919 (Tex, 1978).
Even if prejudgment interest were allowed as damages, an increase in the postjudgment interest rate, without a corresponding change in the prejudgment interest rate, does not have retroactive effect because interest does not accrue on a judgment until it is entered unless the statute specifically provides otherwise.
1981 PA 192-203. Act 198, concerning redemption, was to take effect on January 1, 1984; it was amended by 1983 PA 151.
See 1980 PA 357, §§ 2 and 3.