ELECTROLINES, INC. v. PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE CO., LTD.

Docket No. 240983.

677 N.W.2d 874 (2003)

260 Mich. App. 144

ELECTROLINES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., Eagle Star Insurance Company, Ltd., Star Assurance Society, Ltd., Albion Insurance Company, NRG Fenchurch, Bishopsgate Insurance Company, Ltd., and Assicurazioni Generali Spa, Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, and Orion Insurance Company and St. Katherine Insurance Company, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided December 23, 2003, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication March 19, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (by Camille T. Horne and Hans H.J. Pijls), Detroit, for the plaintiff.

Vandeveer Garzia, P.C. (by Hal O. Carroll, William L. Kiriazis, and Anthony J. Kostello), and Pino & Associates, LLP (by Rudolph V. Pino, Jr.), Troy; White Plains, New York, for the defendants.

Before: BANDSTRA, P.J., and HOEKSTRA and BORRELLO, JJ.


HOEKSTRA, J.

This appeal concerns an attempt by plaintiff Electrolines, Inc., to have a Michigan trial court recognize and enforce under the Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act (UFMJRA), MCL 691.1151 et seq., and the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (UEFJA), MCL 691.1171 et seq., the money judgment it obtained in Liberia against defendant insurers. The trial court denied the jurisdictional...

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