Pritza v. Village of Lansing

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that because governmental self-insurance pools are not insurance, they are exempt from the state’s underinsured motorist statute
• stating that an insurance policy is a contract between an insurer and an insured
• the court cannot legislate but must interpret the law where the language of the statute is plain and certain
• “our resolution of the instant case turns on whether defendants were insurers ab initio, which is also a question of law not resolved by any factual admission”
• “it is well established that a declaratory judgment has the force of a final judgment with respect to the rights of the parties subject to that judgment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).