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KREINER v. FISCHER

Docket Nos. 124120, 124757. Calendar Nos. 4, 5.

683 N.W.2d 611 (2004)

471 Mich. 109

Richard Adam KREINER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert Oakland FISCHER, Defendant-Appellant. Daniel Lee Straub, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Phillip Michael Collette and Teresa M. Heil-Wylie, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 23, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sinas, Dramis, Brake, Boughton & McIntyre, P.C. (by George T. Sinas), Lansing, MI, Cochran, Foley & Associates, P.C. (by Terry L. Cochran), Livonia, MI, and Cooper & Kirk, P.L.L.C. (by Charles J. Cooper, Hamish P.M. Hume, and Derek L. Shaffer), Washington, DC, for plaintiff Kreiner.

Law Offices of Lawrence S. Katkowsky, P.C. (by Lawrence S. Katkowsky and Dondi R. Vesprini), Bingham Farms, MI, for plaintiff Straub.

Garan Lucow Miller, P.C. (by Daniel S. Saylor, William J. Brickley, and Beth A. Andrews), Detroit, MI, for defendant Fischer.

Willingham & Cote, P.C. (by John A. Yeager and Curtis R. Hadley), E. Lansing, MI, for defendants Collette and Heil-Wylie.

Gross, Nemeth & Silverman, P.L.C. (by Mary T. Nemeth), Detroit, MI, for amicus curiae the Auto Club Insurance Association in Kreiner.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. (by Kevin J. Moody and Jaclyn Shoshana Levine), for amicus curiae the Coalition Protecting Auto No Fault.

Gross, Nemeth & Silverman, P.L.C. (by Mary T. Nemeth), Detroit, MI, for amicus curiae the Insurance Institute of Michigan in Straub.

OPINION

TAYLOR, J.

In these consolidated cases, we granted leave to appeal to consider whether plaintiffs satisfy the "serious impairment of body function" threshold set by the no-fault insurance act in order to be able to maintain an action for noneconomic tort damages. See M.C.L. § 500.3135(1). The trial courts granted defendants' motions for summary disposition, concluding that neither plaintiff has suffered a "serious impairment of body function...

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