Court Opinion

ID: 9397737
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-26 05:06:57.373607+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:27.203028
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                 revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports.

                          STATE OF MICHIGAN

                            COURT OF APPEALS

DLT II, a legally protected person, by Next Friend                   UNPUBLISHED
DANNY W. THOMASON, and DANNY W.                                      May 25, 2023
THOMASON individually,

               Plaintiffs-Appellees,

v                                                                    No. 360502
                                                                     Calhoun Circuit Court
ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, also known                               LC No. 2011-000281-NF
as ASMI AUTO INSURANCE,

               Defendant/Cross-Plaintiff/Cross-
               Defendant-Appellant,
and

MICHELLE HOFFMAN,

               Defendant/Cross-Defendant/Cross-
               Plaintiff.

Before: MARKEY, P.J., and MURRAY and FEENEY, JJ.

FEENEY, J (concurring).

        I concur in the result reached by the majority, but write separately to respectfully express
my belief that Andary1 was correctly decided and we are bound to follow it. I believe there is no
clear, direct and unequivocal intent expressed in 2019 PA 21 and 2019 PA 22 to apply the statute
retroactively.

                                                             /s/ Kathleen A. Feeney

1
  See Andary v USAA Cas Ins Co, ___ Mich App ___; ___ NW2d ___ (2022) (Docket No. 356487),
lv gtd 510 Mich 944; 979 NW2d 823 (2022).

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