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Michigan Appellate Court Holds No Evidence Doctors Who Treated Patient In Hospital Were Ostensible Agents Of The Hospital

September 18, 2023

To establish a claim of ostensible agency, a plaintiff must show that the plaintiff reasonably believed in the putative agent’s authority generated by some act or omission of the putative principal, and that the plaintiff’s own negligence did not contribute to any misapprehension. In the case th[...]

$9.7M Michigan Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death From Infected Surgical Wound

September 12, 2023

$9.7M For Death From Infected Surgical Wound: On April 27, 2023, a Macomb County Michigan medical malpractice jury deliberated for about five hours after more than two weeks of trial before returning an unanimous verdict in the amount of $9,702,296 against Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Corporation and [...]

Michigan Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Cardiologist In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit

November 18, 2019

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”), in an unpublished opinion dated October 22, 2019, reversed summary judgment that had been granted by the trial court to the defendant cardiologist in a Michigan medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit involving a 57-[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Rules Summary Judgment Not Appropriate For Defendant Gastroenterologist

August 16, 2019

In its published opinion filed on July 25, 2019, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) ruled that the circuit court did not err by denying the defendants’ motion for summary disposition in a Michigan medical malpractice case where the defendant gastroe[...]

Michigan Nurses Sue Detroit Hospital, Alleging Too Few Nurses Threatens Patient Safety

November 22, 2017

The Michigan Nurses Association filed a lawsuit on November 2, 2017 against Detroit Medical Center’s 158-bed Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital (“the hospital”), alleging that the for-profit corporate owner of the Detroit Medical Center, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, has instituted cost-c[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Rules Hospital Fall Injury Claim Was Medical Malpractice Claim

August 13, 2017

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) ruled in its July 20, 2017 unreported decision that the plaintiff’s claim for damages for the injuries he sustained when he fell while walking to the bathroom in his hospital room was a claim for medical negligence[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Denial Of Summary Judgment In Failure To Warn Medical Malpractice Claim

August 3, 2017

In its unpublished opinion dated July 18, 2017, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s denial of summary judgment in favor of the Michigan medical malpractice defendants with regard to the plaintiffs’ failure to warn theory, but [...]

Michigan Appellate Court Allows Evidence Of Drunk Driving In 1997 In Recent Medical Malpractice Trial

June 29, 2017

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) recently affirmed in an unreported opinion that the trial judge in a Michigan medical malpractice case properly allowed testimony about the plaintiff driving drunk during a motor vehicle accident in 1997 in a recent medi[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Decides Res Ipsa Loquitor May Apply To Negligent Surgical Positioning Claim

June 14, 2017

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) stated in its unreported opinion dated May 18, 2017 that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur may apply to a medical malpractice case where an unconscious patient is under the care of a surgical team. The Underlying Facts T[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Testimony Not Admissible

June 12, 2017

In its unpublished opinion filed on April 13, 2017, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s order granting summary disposition in favor of the defendants in a Michigan medical malpractice wrongful death case because the plainti[...]

Michigan Assisted Living Facility Sued For Elopement Death

January 22, 2017

The husband of a woman suffering from early onset dementia filed a lawsuit on January 12, 2017 against the Michigan assisted living facility where she had resided, for her death that resulted from her elopement from the facility and the failure of the assisted living facility staff to check on her. [...]

Detroit Lawsuit Alleges Jail Inmate Died From Untreated Prescription Medication Withdrawal

October 9, 2015

A lawsuit recently filed in federal court in Detroit alleges that a for-profit prison medical services contractor and others were negligent when it came to their treatment of a man who was spending 30 days in jail due to his failure to appear in traffic court for a careless driving charge. On the[...]

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