Allstate Insurance v. Johnson

Defendant Renae Johnson appeals as of right an order of the circuit court granting plaintiff Allstate Insurance Company’s motion for summary disposition in this action for declaratory judgment. We reverse.

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On April 30, 1989, Vernell Johnson was set upon by defendant Michael Charles Edwards, then a minor, and two other teen-agers, who beat Johnson until he was unconscious and threw him head first into a water-filled storm sewer, where he ultimately drowned. Edwards was tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder, MCL 750.316; MSA 28.548.

In January 1991, defendant Renae Johnson, as…