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ROBERTS v. AUTO-OWNERS INS. CO.

Docket No. 72861, (Calendar No. 2).

422 Mich. 594 (1985)

374 N.W.2d 905

ROBERTS v. AUTO-OWNERS INSURANCE COMPANY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 1, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bush, Luce, Henderson, Bankson & Heyboer (by S. Keith Bankson) for the plaintiffs.

Law Office of W.J. Drillock (by David W. Hearsch) for the defendant.

Amici Curiae:

Dickinson, Brandt, Hanlon, Becker & Lanctot (by Charles T. McCutcheon) (Gromek, Bendure & Thomas, by Carl L. Gromek and Nancy L. Bosh, of counsel) for Auto Club Insurance Association.

Donovan, Hammond, Ziegelman, Roach & Sotiroff, P.C. (by Thomas A. Roach and Mark C. Lahti), and Joseph W. Murray, Assistant General Counsel, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan.

Joan Lovell for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.

Eggenberger, Eggenberger, McKinney & Weber, P.C. (by William D. Eggenberger and Paul D. Hofmeister), for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

BOYLE, J.

Our order granting leave to appeal in this case directed the parties to brief the following two issues:

(1) whether the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress exists in this jurisdiction; and, if so, (2) whether plaintiffs adequately pled and proved an intentional infliction of emotional distress. [419 Mich. 933 (1984).]

Since we conclude that plaintiff failed even to meet the threshold requirements of proof to make...

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