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Argued March 3, 1977.
Decided June 8, 1978.
Application for rehearing filed August 31, 1978.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lopatin, Miller, Bindes, Freedman & Bluestone (by Sheldon L. Miller and Victoria C. Heldman) and Philo, Cockrel, Spearman, Cooper, Rine, King & Atkinson for plaintiffs.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Harry G. Iwasko, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for defendants Secretary of State, and Commissioner of Insurance.
Bodman, Longley, Bogle & Dahling (by Theodore Souris and James R. Buschmann) for defendant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.
Dickinson, Wright, McKean, Cudlip & Moon (by W. Gerald Warren, Dawn L. Phillips, Richard J. Meyers, and Robert L. Schwartz) for defendant Allstate Insurance Company.
Downs & Edwards for defendant League General Insurance Company.
Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg (by James D. Tracy, Michael J. McGuigan, and Nancy C. Kurtz) for defendants Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange and Riverside Insurance Company of America.
Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn (Avern Cohn and John M. Kamins, of counsel) for defendants Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, The Travelers Indemnity Company, Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, Continental Casualty Company, and the Home Indemnity Company.
Amici Curiae:
Robert E. Keeton.
American Mutual Insurance Alliance, by Foster, Swift & Collins, P.C. (by Webb A. Smith, David W. McKeague, and Michael J. Schmedlen).
Michigan Mutual Insurance Company, by Elijah Poxson and James L. Schueler.
Progressive Casualty Company, Universal Underwriters, Midwest Mutual Insurance Company, Balboa Insurance Company, Northland Insurance Company, Reserve Insurance Company, and National Indemnity Insurance Company, by Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen (by D.J. Watters and Charles A. Huckabay).
Supreme Court of Michigan.
WILLIAMS, J.
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