Court Opinion

ID: 9724287
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:51:59.867526+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:58.974018
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*198O’Hara, J.
(concurring in result). I concur with Judge McGregor but I feel obligated to write separately because I authored Walters v Arenac Circuit Judge, 377 Mich 37; 138 NW2d 751 (1966). The language used in that opinion might be read to recognize no difference between the neglect of an insurer obligated to undertake defense of a suit by contract and that of an attorney obligated to do so because he was retained for that purpose.
Whatever the difference in these obligations may be I distinguish Walters, supra, from the case at bar because of the insufficiency of the affidavits in this case as to the existence of a meritorious defense.
For that reason I concur with Judge McGregor.