Christopherm Murray News Today

KALKASKA — Michigan Municipal League will have to pay Kalkaska’s liability insurance claim after all, according to the state Court of Appeals.

FRIDAY, July 21 — The Michigan Court of Appeals sided yesterday with Lansing Township in upholding a ruling that stops the city of Lansing’s efforts to annex the Groesbeck Neighborhood …

A trial court made no error when it dismissed as a discovery sanction a counterclaim brought by two aviation companies, a Michigan Court of Appeals panel has held.

A trial court erred when it barred expert testimony on conversion to an open procedure in a medical malpractice action arising out of a gallbladder removal, a Michigan Court of Appeals panel has ruled.

Default judgment was properly levied as a discovery sanction in a case of siblings battling over their late father’s trust, the Michigan Court of Appeals has held in a published decision.

A health care provider, acting as assignee of an insured’s right to PIP benefits or as a plaintiff in a direct action under MCL 500.3112, may sue an insurer to recover the difference between what the assignee billed and what the insurer paid when there is a dispute over the reasonableness of the charges, a panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled.

"These parents knew he had a fascination with guns. They knew he was gifted this gun days earlier, they knew of the graphic drawing that he made, and they knew that he was in crisis," said the assistant prosecutor. "Yet they did nothing."

A trial court erred when it denied an insurance company’s request for a declaratory judgment about the enforceability of a policy’s $20,000/$40,000 bodily injury limits, the Michigan Court of Appeals has held in a published decision.

Leave to appeal has been granted in a case that will decide whether the friends and co-workers of someone fired by the Michigan Department of Corrections for reporting racial harassment have the right to claim retaliation damages themselves.

A trial court made reversible errors in a matter between a landlord and a tenant involving elevated mold conditions at a rental property, according to a Court of Appeals panel.