Seaton v. State Farm Life Insurance

This Court previously reversed and remanded for a new trial defendant’s jury verdict of no cause of action in plaintiffs suit to recover life insurance proceeds. Seaton v State Farm Life Ins Co, 75 Mich App 252; 254 NW2d 858 (1977). While the facts of the instant case are adequately set forth in our previous opinion, we note that, at retrial, the lower court, upon plaintiff’s motion, limited Dr. Collins’ testimony to those matters not privileged under MCL 600.2157; MSA 27A.2157. Therefore, Dr. Collins’ statement that he advised plaintiff’s husband of his cancerous condition in 1968 was not…