Protective Insurance v. American Mutual Liability Insurance

Plaintiff appeals as of right from a judgment of no cause of action entered in favor of defendant after a bench trial in the Macomb County Circuit Court.

On January 11, 1979, Lawrence Harris was a passenger in a tractor-semitrailer owned and operated by James Compton. Compton’s truck collided with another truck parked on the side of the Ohio Turnpike. As a result, Compton’s truck went off the road and crashed into a ravine. Harris died from the injuries he sustained in this accident.

The Harris estate brought a wrongful death action in Macomb County Circuit Court against several parties,…