Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange v. McMillan

Plaintiff appeals, as of right, 1 the denial of its motion to correct, modify or vacate an arbitration award of $40,000 in favor of the defendant.

This is an automobile no-fault insurance action. The following recitation of facts is taken from the statement of facts certified by order of the lower court dated September 1, 1978.

On January 10, 1976, Tamara Ann McMillan, a minor at the time, was a passenger in a vehicle owned by her grandfather, Clarence Perkins, which was being driven with permission by her boyfriend, Steven P. Geister. At the intersection of Woodward and Buckingham in Royal…