FARM BUREAU MUT. INS. CO. v. COMM'R OF INS

Docket Nos. 172973, 173045.

204 Mich. App. 361 (1994)

514 N.W.2d 547

FARM BUREAU MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF MICHIGAN v. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 31, 1994, at 9:00 A.M.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman (by Peter H. Ellsworth, Jeffery V. Stuckey, and William C. Bertrand, Jr.), for Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company of Michigan and Auto Club Insurance Association, petitioners.

Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn (by John D. Pirich, Timothy Sawyer Knowlton, and Sandra Jasinski), for Auto-Owners Insurance Company, Amerisure Insurance Company, and Hanover Insurance Company, intervening petitioners.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Gary P. Gordon and Richard P. Gartner, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Commissioner of Insurance, respondent.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Leo H. Friedman, Assistant Attorney General, for the Secretary of State, intervening respondent.

Sachs, Waldman, O'Hare, Helveston, Hodges & Barnes, P.C. (by Theodore Sachs and Mark Brewer), for Committee for Fairness and Accountability in Insurance Reform and other intervening respondents.

Before: MICHAEL J. KELLY, P.J., CAVANAGH and FITZGERALD, JJ.


MICHAEL J. KELLY, P.J.

By separate applications, appellants seek emergency appeals from a February 25, 1994, order of the Eaton Circuit Court that vacated a declaratory ruling by the Commissioner of Insurance.

Because the applications involve a question of significance to the state's jurisprudence and the Supreme Court has denied bypass in an order entered on March 25, 1994 (Docket No. 99005), we issue this final decision regarding the applications pursuant...

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