Belcher v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that § 3114 is both a priority and an entitlement provision
• “[A] survivor’s entitlement to benefits may be said to be derivative of or dependent upon the deceased injured person’s entitlement to benefits had he survived.”
• “[B]efore recovery of benefits may be obtained through an assigned claims plan, it must be determined that no personal protection insurance is ‘applicable to the injury.’ ”
• “[I]t is necessary to infer from the language of [MCL 500.3114 and MCL 500.3115] that where an injured person is given the right to recover benefits from a specific insurer, his surviving dependents have the same right of recovery for their losses.”
• “[I]t is necessary to infer from the language of [MCL 500.3114 and MCL 500.3115] that where an injured person is given the right to recover benefits from a specific insurer, his surviving dependents have the same right of recovery for their losses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).