Engel v. Credit Life Insurance

Plaintiff appeals as of right from a June 1984 order of the circuit court for Kent County which (1) denied plantifFs motion for partial summary judgment on plaintiff’s action for a declaratory judgment against defendant and (2) granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment in favor of defendant. The question presented is both novel and of first impression._

Plaintiff, a student at Michigan State University, suffered a broken leg with resultant surgery when he struck the ground on October 15, 1983, after an otherwise successful first parachute jump. Defendant is the insurer which had issued a…