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Argued April 5, 1994.
Decided August 29, 1994.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Fabian & Sklar, P.C. (by Michael H. Fabian, Stuart A. Sklar, and Jo Robin Davis), for the plaintiff.
Tolley, Verwys, Vandenbosch & Walton, P.C. (by David L. Harrison), for the defendant.
Amici Curiae:
Donna K. Coker for California Alliance Against Domestic Violence and Ad Hoc Committee of Law Professors Working on Domestic Violence.
John A. Lydick for Auto Club Group Insurance Company.
Monica Farris Linkner for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.
Julie Kunce Field for Women and the Law Clinic, Suellyn Scarnecchia for Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, Susan G.S. McGee for Domestic Violence Project, Inc./SAFE House, Judith Armatta for Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Barbara J. Hart for Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Linda J. Wharten for Women's Law Project, Rebecca E. Shiemke for Women's Justice Center, Jo Prout for Help-In-Crisis, Inc., Shirley Farber Hukle for YWCA of Enid, Oklahoma, Judith J. Munaker for Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Georgia Rasco for Oklahoma Coalition on Domestic Violence, R. Satt Hayston for Family Violence Intervention Services, Janet E. Mickish for Colorado Domestic Violence Coalition, and Sherry Currens for Kentucky Domestic Violence Association.
Supreme Court of Michigan.
LEVIN, J.
This Court granted leave to appeal, limited to the issue whether § 2832 of the Insurance Code,1 providing the form of the standard fire insurance policy, "prohibits an insurer from denying coverage to an insured who is innocent of wrongdoing based upon the wrongdoing of any other coinsured." 444 Mich. 935 (1994).
We hold that the provisions of the insurance policy issued by defendant State Farm Fire & Casualty...
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