Lockridge v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

618 N.W.2d 49 (2000)

240 Mich. App. 507

Larry LOCKRIDGE, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

Docket No. 211687.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Submitted October 13, 1999, at Detroit.

Decided April 18, 2000, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication June 26, 2000.

Bernstein & Bernstein (by William W. Watkinson, Jr.), Southfield, for the plaintiff.

Draugelis & Ashton, L.L.P. (by Timothy M. McKercher), Plymouth, for the defendant.

Before Jansen, P.J., and Saad and Gage, JJ.

SAAD, J.

I. NATURE OF THE CASE

While plaintiff was off work because of a work-related…