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Comparative Negligence And Automobile Liability Insurance, Cornelius J. Peck
Comparative Negligence And Automobile Liability Insurance, Cornelius J. Peck
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this article is not to re-plow the ground of history, case law, and statutory developments which has been so competently tilled by others. Nor is the purpose to give a detailed consideration of each of the practical matters mentioned above. Instead, the focus of this article is on the relationship between comparative negligence and automobile liability insurance. Insurance rates and accident statistics, rather than rules of law and cases, are the primary materials. Such a consideration of the subject it might be hoped would give a positive and substantiated answer to the frequently debated but never documented …
Evidence - Admissibility Of Hospital Records As Business Entries, Robert C. Lovejoy
Evidence - Admissibility Of Hospital Records As Business Entries, Robert C. Lovejoy
Michigan Law Review
As a defense to a suit on an insurance policy, the defendant insurer claimed that the plaintiff was intoxicated at the time of the fatal accident. Defendant offered in evidence a portion of the case record of the hospital to which plaintiff was taken after the accident, the record stating that he was "apparently well under influence of alcohol." Although it was duly authenticated under the federal statute permitting business entries to be used as evidence, this evidence was excluded by the trial court as being an observation rather than a diagnosis. Held, reversed. There was no basis for …