HUSTED v. AUTO-OWNERS INS. CO.

Docket No. 104447, Calendar No. 17.

591 N.W.2d 642 (1999)

459 Mich. 500

Marcia HUSTED, Personal Representative of the Estate of Richard Allen Husted, Jr., deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Henry Clifton Dobbs, Defendant, and AUTO-OWNERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 27, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ford & Kobayashi, P.C. (by James B. Ford), Kalamazoo, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Dykema, Gossett, P.L.L.C. (by Donald S. Young, Kathleen McCree Lewis, and Lori M. Silsbury), Lansing, and Bartosiewicz & Kimbrel, P.C. (by Gary P. Bartosiewicz), Kalamazoo, for defendant-appellee.

Willingham & Cote', P.C. (by John A. Yeager), East Lansing, for amici curiae Insurance Information Association of Michigan.

Charters, Heck, O'Donnell, Petrulis & Zorza, P.C. (by Eric S. Goldstein), Troy, for amici curiae Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.


OPINION

TAYLOR, J.

Henry Dobbs struck and killed plaintiff's decedent while driving his employer's uninsured vehicle. Dobbs had a personal automobile insurance policy with defendant Auto-Owners Insurance Company. This policy included an applicable business-use exclusion. We granted leave to determine whether the no-fault act's residual liability coverage requirement voids this business-use exclusion under...

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