Court Opinion

ID: 9934057
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:42:54.524499+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:26:19.992909
License: Public Domain

I respectfully dissent. Like the plaintiffs in Ansara v.State Farm Ins. Co., 207 Mich. App. 320, 523 N.W.2d 899 (1994), and Hunt v. Citizens Ins. Co., 183 Mich. App. 660,455 N.W.2d 384 (1990), Wayne Cook was struck when he was only a foot from the motor vehicle. I believe the evidence presents a genuine, if close, issue of material fact as to whether Cook's motions amounted to an affirmative act or movement to effect an entrance into the truck. I would, therefore, reverse the summary judgment for Aetna Insurance Company and remand the cause for a jury to resolve this factual issue.