WHITE v. CHRYSLER CORP.

Docket Nos. 69601, 71000. (Calendar Nos. 12, 13).

421 Mich. 192 (1984)

364 N.W.2d 619

WHITE v. CHRYSLER CORPORATION BUSCHLEN v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 28, 1984.

Released January 29, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charfoos, Christensen & Archer, P.C. (by Adrienne G. Southgate), for plaintiff White.

Dice, Sweeney, Sullivan, Feikens, Hurbis & Foster, P.C. (by Dale L. Hebert), for defendant Chrysler Corporation.

Philo, Atkinson, Steinberg, Walker & White (by Harry M. Philo and Richard L. Steinberg) for plaintiff Buschlen.

Harvey, Kruse, Westen & Milan, P.C. (by John A. Kruse and Michael F. Schmidt), and Martin, Bacon & Martin, P.C. (by James N. Martin), for defendant Ford Motor Company.

Amici Curiae:

Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen, P.C. (by James R. Kohl), for Association of Defense Trial Counsel and Michigan Defense Counsel, Inc.

Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian (by Paul A. Rosen) for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.


Released January 29, 1985. Rehearing denied in Buschlen, post, 1202.

LEVIN, J.

Gary Buschlen lost a hand, and one of Fannie White's hands was seriously injured, while they were operating power presses for an outsource contractor employed to produce automobile parts by the Ford Motor Company, in Buschlen, and the Chrysler Corporation, in White. The outsource contractors, or their workers' compensation liability insurers, paid Buschlen's and White...

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