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AL-HAJJAJ v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY

No. 359291.

5 N.W.3d 353 (2023)

345 Mich. App. 361

Ahmed AL-HAJJAJ, Plaintiff/Counterdefendant-Appellee, v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, Defendant/Counterplaintiff/Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, and Ahmed Odah Salem Alderawi, Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois, Sam Saeidi, Golden Insurance Agency, LLC, and Golden Insurance Agency of Ohio, LLC, Defendants, and Prime Transportation Service, LLC, and Batol Alyunisi, Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided January 26, 2023, 9:20 a.m.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kutinsky PC (by Adam Kutinsky ) for Ahmed Al-Hajjaj, Prime Transportation Services LLC, and Batol Alyunisi.

Secrest Wardle (by Drew W. Broaddus , Grand Rapids, and Mark F. Masters , Troy) for Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company.

Before: Hood, P.J., and Swartzle and Redford, JJ.

In Michigan, an independent-insurance agent is ordinarily an agent of the insured, not the insurer. The key question in this interlocutory appeal is whether our Legislature abrogated this principle of Michigan's common law when it amended the Insurance Code, MCL 500.100 et seq., in 2018.

A fair reading of the amendments...

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