YVONNE WILLIAMS V SUBURBAN MOBILITY AUTHORITY FOR REGIONAL TRANS
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
YVONNE WILLIAMS,
UNPUBLISHED
December 9, 2010
Plaintiff-Appellee,
V
No. 293061
Wayne Circuit Court
LC No. 09-001387-NI
SUBURBAN MOBILITY AUTHORITY FOR
REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION,
Defendant-Appellant,
and
JOHN DOE,
Defendant.
Before: WILDER, P.J., and CAVANAGH and M. J. KELLY, JJ.
WILDER, P.J., (concurring)
I concur in the result reached by the majority in this case. By telephone, plaintiff
contacted The ASU Group, the third party administrator designated by defendant SMART, to
report her injury. The ASU Group, in turn, sent plaintiff a letter dated November 19, 2008, the
text of which makes clear that The ASU Group considered plaintiff's communication to be notice
of a claim. The letter to plaintiff references an application for PIP benefits, an attending
physician and services explanation form, as well as an affidavit of no-insurance, and instructs the
plaintiff to make sure that each of the documents was notarized.
In response to this letter, plaintiff sent The ASU Group a hand-written letter that, in
addition to providing notice of the occurrence which led to the injury and a description of the
injury, also asserts that plaintiff was continuing to treat with a physician and receiving physical
therapy as a result of the injury. I would conclude, therefore, under all of the circumstances in
this particular record, that although minimally and modestly stated, plaintiff's November 19,
2008 letter meets the requirements of MCL 124.419.
/s/ Kurtis T. Wilder
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