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FARM BUREAU MUT. INS. CO. v. NIKKEL

Docket No. 111341, Calendar No. 16.

596 N.W.2d 915 (1999)

460 Mich. 558

FARM BUREAU MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF MICHIGAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Steven Jacob NIKKEL, Steven John Nikkel and Blue Water Contracting, Inc., Defendants, and Elex Cagle, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Frances Arlene Cagle, and Wayne Fitzgerald, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sherry Lee Fitzgerald, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 20, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willingham & Cote, P.C. (by John A. Yeager and Anthony S. Kogut), East Lansing, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Herskovic, Heilmann & Domol (by Richard E. Shaw), Southfield and Gursten & Koltonow (by David E. Christensen), Southfield, for defendants-appellees.

Opinion

CORRIGAN, J.

We granted leave in this case to determine whether a nonowned automobile clause1 of a no-fault insurance policy is ambiguous. We hold that the policy language at issue here is unambiguous and enforceable. In doing so, we repudiate the two-justice plurality opinion in Powers v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Ins. Exchange, 427 Mich. 602, 398 N.W.2d 411...

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