Ryder Truck Rental, Inc. v. AUTO-OWNERS INS. CO. INC.

In this action involving the no-fault automobile insurance act, MCL 500.3101 et seq.; MSA 24.13101 et seq., defendant appeals as of right from a judgment requiring it to cover a five-sixths pro-rata share of liability incurred when a tractor rented from plaintiff Ryder by Leon’s Homemade Foods collided with another vehicle, whose two occupants were injured. Defendant, which insured the Leon’s-owned trailer that the tractor was hauling at the time of the accident, argued that Ryder’s automobile liability insurer, plaintiff Old Republic, was required to cover damages up to the limit of its…