Hardy v. Oakland County

The issue in this case is whether the threshold requirements for pursuing a tort remedy for noneconomic damages under the no-fault insurance act are applicable when the defendant is a governmental agency being sued under the vehicle exception to the governmental immunity act. The circuit court held that, in such an instance, the plaintiff was obliged to make the threshold showings. The Court of Appeals affirmed, as do we.

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In the early morning hours of June 7, 1993, an Oakland County sheriff’s deputy drove his marked patrol car into the back of a moving car that was traveling ahead of him on…