ALBERTO v. TOYOTA MOTOR CORP.

Docket No. 296824.

796 N.W.2d 490 (2010)

289 Mich. App. 328

ALBERTO v. TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided August 5, 2010, at 9:00 a.m.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hilborn & Hilborn, P.C. (by George Hilborn ), Birmingham; Thomas J. Murray & Associates (by Thomas J. Murray ), Grand Rapids; Edgar F. Heiskell, III ; Bailey & Glasser, LLP (by Benjamin L. Bailey , Eric B. Snyder , and Robert P. Lorea ); Lewis & Babcock (by A. Camden Lewis ); and Bendure & Thomas (by Mark R. Bendure ), Detroit, for Lilia Alberto.

Bowman and Brooke LLP (by Lawrence C. Mann , Andrea L. Moody , and Carmen M. Bickerdt ), Troy, for Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc.

Dickinson Wright PLLC (by Robert W. Powell , Phillip J. DeRosier , Detroit, and Michael D. Bossenbroek , Bloomfield Hills), and Hugh F. Young, Jr. , for Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc.

Before: SAAD, P.J., and JANSEN and DONOFRIO, JJ.


SAAD, P.J.

Defendant Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc.,1 appeals by leave granted the trial court's order that denied its motion for a protective order to quash the depositions of two corporate officers, Yoshimi Inaba and Jim Lentz. We vacate the trial court's order and remand this case for further proceedings.

I. FACTS AND UNDERLYING PROCEEDINGS

This is a personal-injury, products-liability suit wherein plaintiff seeks...

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