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WATKINS v. CITY CAB CORP.

Docket No. 78-4436.

97 Mich. App. 723 (1980)

296 N.W.2d 162

WATKINS v. CITY CAB CORPORATION

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 2, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rifkin, Kinglsey & Rhodes, P.C. (by Frank K. Rhodes, III), for plaintiff.

Davidson, Gotshall, Kohl, Secrest, Wardle, Lynch & Clark (by Paul E. Pedersen), for defendant.

Before: M.J. KELLY, P.J., and M.F. CAVANAGH and P.C. ELLIOTT, JJ.

P.C. ELLIOTT, J.

This is the kind of fender-bender soft tissue injury, briefly incapacitating with a fast and full recovery, that the Legislature meant to keep out of court by enacting the threshold requirements. However, by using the uncertain phrase "serious impairment of body function", the no-fault act utterly fails to accomplish that purpose and, ironically, makes auto-accident litigation even more of a crap game...

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