J & J FARMER LEASING, INC. v. CITIZENS INS. CO.

Docket No. 239069.

680 N.W.2d 423 (2004)

260 Mich. App. 607

J & J FARMER LEASING, INC., Farmer Brothers Trucking Company, Inc., Calvin Orange Rickard, Jr., And James W. Riley as Personal Representative of the Estate of SHARYN ANN RILEY, Deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITIZENS INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided February 12, 2004, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication May 14, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Logeman, Iafrate, Januszewski & Pollard, P.C. (by Robert E. Logeman and James A. Iafrate), Ann Arbor, for the plaintiffs.

Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (by Jeffrey C. Gerish, Charles W. Browning, and Stephen P. Brown), Bloomfield Hills, for the defendant.

Before: SAWYER, P.J., and HOEKSTRA and MURRAY, JJ.


HOEKSTRA, J.

In this action alleging bad-faith failure to settle a wrongful-death suit, defendant Citizens Insurance Company of America appeals by leave granted the trial court's order denying its motion for summary disposition. In the trial court, and now on appeal, Citizens maintains that the claim against it must be dismissed because an agreement between plaintiffs J & J Farmer Leasing, Inc. (J & J Farmer), Farmer...

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