DiFRANCO
v.
PICKARD
BURK
v.
WARREN
PAUPORE
v.
ROUSE
KUCERA
v.
NORTON
ROUTLEY
v.
DAULT
Supreme Court of Michigan.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 16, 1986.
Decided December 23, 1986.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert C. Vandenbroucke for plaintiff DiFranco.
Philip C. Dean for plaintiff Burk.
Clancey & Price, P.C. (by Philip A. Clancey), for plaintiffs Paupore and Kucera.
Law Offices of Norman C. Halbower, P.C. (by James K. Oslund and Norman C. Halbower), for plaintiff Routley.
Lee E. Halsey for defendant Pickard.
Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Foster, P.C. (by C. Mark Hoover and Mark A. Bush), for defendant Warren.
Bensinger, Combs & Cotant, P.C. (by Richard G. Bensinger), for defendants Rouse and Johnson and (by Richard G. Bensinger and Michael Combs) for defendant Dault.
Read & Griffin (by Douglas J. Read); (Gromek, Bendure & Thomas, by Carl L. Gromek and Nancy L. Bosh, of counsel) for defendant Norton.
Amici Curiae:
Eggenberger, Eggenberger, McKinney & Weber, P.C. (by William D. Eggenberger), for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.
Anderson, Hay & Wonch, P.C. (by Thomas H. Hay), for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.
Supreme Court of Michigan.
Decided December 23, 1986. Rehearings denied in Burk, Kucera, and Routley, 428 Mich. 1206
CAVANAGH, J.
Section 3135(1) of Michigan's no-fault automobile insurance law1 permits a person injured in a motor vehicle accident to recover damages for noneconomic loss from a negligent owner or operator of a motor vehicle only if the person suffered death, serious impairment of body function, or permanent serious disfigurement:
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