Nelson v. Transamerica Insurance Services

This Court is asked to reconcile *510§ 3103C1)1 of the Michigan no-fault act,2 which requires owners of motorcycles3 to obtain public liability insurance, with § 34 of the off-road recreation vehicles act,5 which exempts owners of off-road recreation vehicles (orv), which include motorcycles,6 from the no-fault act’s insurance *511requirement. We hold that the no-fault act and the orv act, read together, demonstrate that, although motorcycles as defined by the no-fault act must be insured, motorcycles that meet the orv definition are exempt from the insurance requirement under § 3103 of the no-fault…