Putkamer v. Transamerica Insurance Corp. of America

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that injuries sustained when person slipped on ice while entering car were covered by statutory scheme for PIP coverage
• concluding that injuries sustained when person slipped on ice while entering car were covered by statutory scheme for PIP coverage
• finding that Michigan's no-fault statute required the injury to be causally related to claimant's use of the parked motor vehicle
• finding that Michigan's no-fault statute required the injury to be causally related to claimant's use of the parked motor vehicle
• holding that plaintiff was injured by use of a motor vehicle as a motor vehicle when she slipped and fell as she was getting into a parked vehicle because she intended to get into the vehicle to drive to another location
• “The no-fault act is remedial in nature and is to be liberally construed in favor of the persons who are intended to benefit from it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).