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Comparative Negligence And Automobile Liability Insurance, Cornelius J. Peck Mar 1960

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 …


Green: Traffic Victims. Tort Law And Insurance, Spencer L. Kimball Apr 1959

Green: Traffic Victims. Tort Law And Insurance, Spencer L. Kimball

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Traffic Victims. Tort Law and Insurance. By Leon Green.


Liability Insurance - Cooperation Clause - Failure Of Cooperation Absent A Finding Of Prejudice, Edward B. Stulberg S.Ed. May 1958

Liability Insurance - Cooperation Clause - Failure Of Cooperation Absent A Finding Of Prejudice, Edward B. Stulberg S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff insurance company sought a declaratory judgment absolving it from obligation on an automobile liability insurance policy on the ground that there had been a breach of the cooperation clause. Johnston, the insured, was the driver of a car involved in an accident in Crawford County, Kansas, giving rise to substantial claims by defendant Elliott. At the request of Elliott's attorney, Johnston traveled from his home in Kansas to submit to service of process in Missouri. When plaintiff questioned this behavior, Johnston lied, denying that collusion had prompted his appearance in Missouri. On appeal from summary judgment for plaintiff company, …


Conflict Of Laws - Due Process And Full Faith And Credit - Direct Action Statute, Harvey A. Howard S.Ed. Apr 1955

Conflict Of Laws - Due Process And Full Faith And Credit - Direct Action Statute, Harvey A. Howard S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant issued a liability insurance policy to the manufacturer of a hair-waving product, an Illinois subsidiary of a Delaware corporation having its headquarters in Massachusetts. The policy, issued in Massachusetts and delivered in Massachusetts and Illinois, was to protect the insured against damages that might be suffered by users of the product anywhere in the United States or Canada. It contained a "no action" clause enforceable under Massachusetts and Illinois law prohibiting direct actions against the insurer until final determination of the insured's liability, either by judgment or agreement. Alleging injuries sustained in Louisiana where the product was bought and …


Taxation - Federal Income Tax-What Constitutes Accident Or Health Insurance Under Section 22(B)(5)-, Marvin O. Young Jun 1953

Taxation - Federal Income Tax-What Constitutes Accident Or Health Insurance Under Section 22(B)(5)-, Marvin O. Young

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff brought this action to recover federal income tax paid by him for the year 1945 on a sum of $1800 which plaintiff received from his employer pursuant to a "free" sickness benefits plan which plaintiff's employer had in effect, claiming that this amount was excludable from gross income under section 22(b)(5) as "amounts received through accident or health insurance." Plaintiff's employer was an insurance company with authority to write health and accident insurance, and "free" protection was given to all full-time salaried home and branch office employees who could pass a satisfactory medical examination. Many ordinary features of a …