Michigan Personal Injury Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Michigan or Court of Appeals of Michigan where the terms personal injury or related terms have been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily personal injury and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions personal injury related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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Seaton v. Wayne County Prosecutor - 12/27/1999
ON SECOND REMAND
Updated Copy April 27, 1999
On second remand from the Supreme Court, this case is before us for the issuance of an amplified opinion on the question whether 1994 PA 131 is retroactive. We hold that the...
Grezesick v. Cepela - 12/27/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
September 17, 1999
9:20 a.m.
Updated Copy
In this action alleging negligent operation of a motor vehicle, defendant appeals as of right from a judgment, following a two-day jury trial, awarding...
Travelers Insurance Company v. Detroit Edison Company - 12/10/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
September 14, 1999
Plaintiff Travelers Insurance Company appeals by right the grant of summary disposition in favor of defendant Detroit Edison Company pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(4) on the grounds that the...
Morosini v. Citizens Insurance Co. of America - 12/7/1999
AFTER REMAND
After a minor traffic accident, the plaintiff was assaulted by the driver of the other car. The lower courts granted no-fault benefits to the plaintiff, but we reverse and remand the case to the district court for...
Morosini v. Citizens Insurance Company Of America - 12/7/1999
Chief Justice Elizabeth A. Weaver
AFTER REMAND
After a minor traffic accident, the plaintiff was assaulted by the driver of the other car. The lower courts granted no-fault benefits to the plaintiff, but we reverse and...
People v. Noble - 12/3/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
9:00 a.m.
Updated Copy March 3, 2000
Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted of failing to stop at the scene of a serious personal injury accident, MCL 257.617; MSA 9.2317, and operating a...
Kosmyna v. Botsford Community Hospital - 12/3/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
9:15 a.m.
Updated Copy March 3, 2000
Defendants appeal by leave granted from the trial court's order denying their motion to compel arbitration in this medical malpractice action. The trial court held...
Cohen v. Auto Club Insurance Association - 11/30/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
9:05 a.m.
Updated Copy March 3, 2000
This is a declaratory judgment action involving no-fault insurance. Defendant appeals by delayed leave granted from the trial court's order compelling arbitration...
Persichini v. William Beaumont Hospital - 11/30/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
9:15 a.m.
Updated Copy March 3, 2000
Plaintiff, Patricia Persichini, as personal representative of the estate of Mildred Mikoljeski, appeals by leave granted from the trial court order assessing...
McKiney v. Clayman - 11/29/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
August 13, 1999 9:30 a.m.
Updated Copy
Plaintiff appeals as of right the trial court's order granting defendants summary Disposition with respect to plaintiff's medical malpractice claim. The trial...
Haque v. Oakland Probate Judge - 11/29/1999
Updated Copy
FOR PUBLICATION August 20, 1999 9:20 a.m.
Plaintiff Ayesha Haque appeals as of right an Oakland County Probate Court order vacating appointment of fiduciary and an Oakland Circuit Court order denying...
Badalamenti v. William Beaumont Hospital-Troy - 11/29/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
August 20, 1999 9:15 a.m.
Updated Copy
In this action for medical malpractice, defendants appeal by right the amended judgment entered on the jury verdict for plaintiff in the amount of $15 million and...
Hetrick v. Friedman - 11/29/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
August 20, 1999 9:10 a.m.
Updated Copy
Plaintiffs appeal as of right from an order granting defendants' motion for summary Disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(7). We affirm.
I. FACTS AND...
In re Estate of Kubiskey - 6/25/1999
FOR PUBLICATION June 25, 1999 9:55 a.m.
Respondent appeals as of right from a probate court order granting petitioner leave to distribute the proceeds of a wrongful death settlement. We affirm.
Matilda Kubiskey died...
Kubiskey v. Munson - 6/25/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
Updated Copy October 1, 1999
Docket No. 208130. Submitted March 3, 1999, at Grand Rapids. Decided June 25, 1999, at 9:55 a.m.
PER CURIAM.
Respondent appeals as of right from a probate court order...
Taylor v. Kurapati - 6/25/1999
FOR PUBLICATION June 25, 1999 9:05 a.m.
Plaintiffs-appellants Brandy and Brian Taylor, individually, and Brandy Taylor as next friend and mother of Shelby Taylor, a minor (collectively, the "Taylors"), appeal as of right the...
Theisen v. Knake - 6/18/1999
Summary Disposition was granted in favor of defendants James Knake, Elizabeth Copland and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital on plaintiff's claims arising out of the alleged medical malpractice of defendants in their treatment of decedent....
Gunsell v. Ryan - 6/15/1999
FOR PUBLICATION 9:00 a.m.
Defendant Frank Ryan appeals as of right from a judgment entered pursuant to the jury's verdict in favor of plaintiffs. Because we find that plaintiff should have brought this suit as a third-party claim...
Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance Co. v. Masters - 6/15/1999
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
This is an action for declaratory judgment. Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance Company seeks a determination of its obligation to indemnify its insureds for collateral property damage resulting from the...
Dorris v. Detroit Osteopathic Hospital Corp. - 6/9/1999
UPDATED COPY
Deborah Dorris brought a medical malpractice action in the Wayne Circuit Court against Detroit Osteopathic Hospital Corporation. During discovery, she sought to compel the hospital to disclose the name of a patient...
Lown v. Place - 6/4/1999
Plaintiff Joyce Lown appeals as of right the trial court order granting defendant's motion for summary Disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(10) in this action under the Persons with Disabilities Civil Rights Act (PWDCRA), MCL 37.1101...
Candelaria v. BC General Contractors Inc. - 6/4/1999
Defendants BC General Contractors, Inc., and Horizon Cablevision, Inc., appeal as of right from a judgment for plaintiff entered after a jury trial. We reverse and remand.
I.
Defendant Horizon, a company in the business of...
Lown v. JJ Eaton Place - 6/4/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
Updated Copy September 3, 1999
Plaintiff Joyce Lown appeals as of right the trial court order granting defendant's motion for summary Disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(10) in this action under the Persons...
Miller v. Allied Signal Inc. - 6/4/1999
The trial court dismissed plaintiff's claim against defendants on the basis of improper venue and, alternatively, forum non conveniens. Plaintiff appeals as of right, and we reverse and remand.
Plaintiff, an Ohio resident,...
Miller v. Allied Signal - 6/4/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
Updated Copy September 3, 1999
PER CURIAM.
The trial court dismissed plaintiff's claim against defendants on the basis of improper venue and, alternatively, forum non conveniens. Plaintiff appeals as...
People v. Sartor - 5/28/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
9:00 a.m.
Defendant appeals as of right from his conviction after a jury trial for failing to stop at the scene of a serious personal injury accident, MCL 257.617; MSA 9.2317. The trial court sentenced...
Casey v. Henry Ford Health Systems - 5/4/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
Plaintiff brought suit on behalf of her minor son in 1994, when the child was eight years old, alleging medical malpractice attendant to the child's birth in 1987. Defendant moved the trial court for summary...
Tyler v. Livonia Public Schools - 3/23/1999
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
We granted leave to appeal in this case to determine (1) whether MCL 418.354(14); MSA 17.237(354)(14) of Michigan's Worker's Disability Compensation Act excepts disability pension payments made under...
Tyler v. Livona Public Schools - 3/23/1999
UPDATED COPY 12/14/99
Syllabus
Chief Justice Elizabeth A. Weaver
Justices James H. Brickley Michael F. Cavanagh Marilyn Kelly Clifford W. Taylor Maura D. Corrigan Robert P. Young, Jr.
This syllabus was prepared...
Romska v. Opper - 3/19/1999
FOR PUBLICATION
Plaintiff appeals as of right from the order of the lower court granting defendant's motion for summary Disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(7) (release). We affirm.
This case arises from a May 1994...
Dedes v. Asch - 12/29/1998
Updated Copy April 27, 1999
Following a jury trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the estate of Adrian Dedes in the amount of $1,095,000, less eighty-five percent comparative negligence attributed to "plaintiff Estate...
Seaton v. Wayne County Prosecutor - 12/29/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
ON SECOND REMAND
On second remand from the Supreme Court, this case is before us for the issuance of an amplified opinion on the question whether 1994 PA 131 is retroactive. We hold that the statute is...
People v. Ivers - 12/28/1998
PEOPLE v IVERS
Docket No. 111177. Argued December 10, 1998 (Calendar No. 14). Decided December 28, 1998.
Michael P. Ivers was convicted by a jury in the Ingham Circuit Court, Peter D. Houk, J., of third-degree criminal...
Abbott v. John E. Green Co. - 12/18/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
9:00 a.m.
Updated Copy April 27, 1999
I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Defendants in these four consolidated cases appeal by leave granted from the circuit court's orders denying their identical motions...
Abbott v. John E. Green Company - 12/18/1998
I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Defendants in these four consolidated cases appeal by leave granted from the circuit court's orders denying their identical motions for summary Disposition. The appeals arose out of the same asbestos suit...
Boyt v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad - 12/15/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
9:05 a.m.
Updated Copy April 27, 1999
Plaintiff, an employee of defendant railroad, brought this action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA), 45 USC 51 et seq., ยง 2 of the Federal Safety...
Pool v. Metalux and Medler Electric Co. - 8/28/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
Calhoun Circuit Court
LC No. 94-002763-CZ
Plaintiff appeals as of right the directed verdict in favor of defendants and the trial court's limitation of the scope of its expert testimony. Defendants...
MASB-SEG Property v. Metalux - 8/28/1998
9:00 a.m.
Submitted May 13, 1998, at Detroit. Decided August 28, 1998, at 9:00 a.m.
Plaintiff appeals as of right the directed verdict in favor of defendants and the trial court's limitation of the scope of plaintiff's...
Spikes v. Banks - 8/21/1998
9:20 a.m.
Submitted February 5, 1998, at Detroit. Decided August 21, 1998, at 9:20 a.m.
Plaintiff appeals as of right from two circuit court orders granting summary Disposition in favor of defendants. We affirm in part,...
Lake States Insurnace Company v. Wilson - 8/21/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
9:10 a.m.
Submitted July 14, 1998, at Grand Rapids. Decided August 21, 1998, at 9:10 a.m.
Plaintiff, Lake States Insurance Company, appeals as of right the order denying its motion for summary...
Simmons v. Banks - 8/21/1998
Docket No. 197144. Submitted February 5, 1998, at Detroit. Decided August 21, 1998, at 9:20 a.m.
Plaintiff appeals as of right from two circuit court orders granting summary Disposition in favor of defendants. We affirm in part,...
Lake States Insurance Company v. Wilson - 8/21/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
Docket No. 200038. Submitted July 14, 1998, at Grand Rapids. Decided August 21, 1998, at 9:10 a.m.
Plaintiff, Lake States Insurance Company, appeals as of right the order denying its motion for summary...
Lake States Insurance Co. v. Wilson - 8/21/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
Grand Traverse Circuit
LC No. 96-014366 CK
Plaintiff Lake States Insurance Company appeals as of right the order denying its motion for summary Disposition and granting defendants' cross-motion for...
Beaudrie v. Anchor Packing Co. - 8/18/1998
Docket Nos. 196195, 196196, 196197. Submitted January 13, 1998, at Detroit. Decided August 18, 1998, at 9:00 a.m.
Plaintiffs in these consolidated appeals appeal as of right from circuit court orders modifying their prior consent...
In re Estate of Beaudrie - 8/18/1998
Docket Nos. 196195, 196196, 196197. Submitted January 13, 1998, at Detroit. Decided August 18, 1998, at 9:00 a.m.
Plaintiffs in these consolidated appeals appeal as of right from circuit court orders modifying their prior consent...
Jozwiak v. Burd - 8/14/1998
Docket No. 191691. Submitted March 11, 1998, at Detroit. Decided August 14, 1998, at 9:25 a.m.
This is the second appeal in this case. Previously, the trial court dismissed plaintiffs' medical malpractice action against...
Jozwiak v. Northern Michigan Hospitals - 8/14/1998
Docket No. 191691. Submitted March 11, 1998, at Detroit. Decided August 14, 1998, at 9:25 a.m.
This is the second appeal in this case. Previously, the trial court dismissed plaintiffs' medical malpractice action against...
Jozwiak v. Northern Michigan Hospitals Inc. - 8/14/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
Emmet Circuit Court LC No. 90-104016-NH
This is the second appeal in this case. Previously, the trial court dismissed plaintiff's medical malpractice action against defendants under MCR 2.116(C)(7) on the...
Klinke v. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. - 7/31/1998
Lansing, Michigan
48909
This syllabus was prepared by the Reporter of Decisions.
Reporter of Decisions William F. Haggerty
Argued April 7, 1998 (Calendar No. 2).
Decided July 31, 1998.
Livingston...
Citizens Insurance Co. v. Osmose Wood Preserving Inc. - 7/31/1998
Submitted March 10, 1998, at Detroit.
This case involves a dispute regarding liability for the collapse of the roof of a restaurant owned and operated by Kim's of Novi (Kim's). It is alleged that the collapse was caused by the...
Merrow v. Bofferding - 7/31/1998
Michigan Supreme Court Lansing, Michigan
Syllabus
Reporter of Decisions William F. Haggerty
Argued April 8, 1998 (Calendar No. 8). Decided July 31, 1998.
Court of Appeals, White, W. E. Collette, JJ., and Murphy,...
Klinke v. Chrysler Corp. - 7/31/1998
SC 107730-32, CoA 168384, 183206, 183208, LC 90-10743-NP,
On order of the Court, the motions by Michigan Trial Lawyers Association and by Product Liability Advisory Council and Michigan Manufacturers Association for leave to file...
(Mich. 07/30/1998)
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Michigan Supreme Court
[2]
1998.MI.15635 <http://www.versuslaw.com>
[3]
July 30 - 7/30/1998
Chief Justice Conrad L. Mallett, Jr.
Justices James H. Brickley Michael F. Cavanagh Patricia J. Boyle Elizabeth A. Weaver Marilyn Kelly Clifford W. Taylor
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
We granted leave in this case to...
St. Luke's Hospital v. Giertz - 7/30/1998
Chief Justice Conrad L. Mallett, Jr.
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
In this case, we are asked to decide whether the plaintiff may proceed with a separate indemnification action against the defendant after settling the...
Layman v. Newkirk Electric Associates - 7/30/1998
Chief Justice Conrad L. Mallett, Jr.
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
We granted leave in this case to decide (1) whether the Worker's Compensation Appellate Commission improperly made fact findings in the absence of findings by...
Morris v. Allstate Insurance Co. - 6/19/1998
Muskegon Circuit Court
LC No. 93-030587-CK
Plaintiff, an injured passenger, filed suit for no-fault benefits arising out of a September 1992 collision between two off-road recreational vehicles (ORV's). Defendant moved for...
Blackwell v. Citizens Insurance Co. - 6/16/1998
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
This case presents the issue whether a worker's compensation carrier has duties to an injured claimant to conform the claimant's treatment to the recommendations of a physician to whom the carrier refers...
Hagerman v. Gencorp Automotive - 6/16/1998
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
We granted leave to appeal to examine the Legislature's use of the phrase "proximate cause" in MCL 418.375(2); MSA 17.237(375)(2), which provides for survivor's benefits under the worker's compensation...
457 Mich. 720 - 6/16/1998
Syllabus
This syllabus was prepared by the Reporter of Decisions.
Reporter of Decisions William F. Haggerty
Argued December 10, 1997 (Calendar No. 8).
Hearing referee.
Worker's Compensation Appellate...
Johnson v. City of Detroit - 6/16/1998
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
We granted leave to determine whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming summary Disposition for the defendants on governmental immunity grounds. Plaintiff's decedent hanged himself on overhead bars...
Braun v. York Properties Inc. - 6/2/1998
In these consolidated cases, York Properties, Inc., the owners and manager of the mobile-home park at which the underlying events took place (hereinafter defendants) appeal as of right the judgment for plaintiff Nicholas Braun on his...
White v. Busuito - 5/26/1998
9:00 a.m.
The trial court entered a default judgment in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $750,000 after defendant failed to respond to plaintiff's complaint alleging medical malpractice. The court also denied defendant's...
Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. v. Blood - 5/22/1998
9:25 a.m.
In these appeals as of right from orders granting plaintiff Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company summary Disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(10) in actions for a declaratory judgment, which have been consolidated...
Michigan Basic Property Insurance Association v. Ware - 5/22/1998
9:15 a.m.
The sole issue in these interlocutory appeals is whether judgment creditors of a decedent's estate may collect from continuing installments of prize money issuing from the decedent's participation in the state lottery....
Grievance Administrator v. Rostash - 5/19/1998
This is an appeal from an order of the Attorney Discipline Board that affirmed a ninety-day suspension of respondent James J. Rostash's license to practice law. On behalf of the Attorney Grievance Commission, the Grievance...
Lagalo v. Allied Corp. - 5/19/1998
After being injured in an automobile accident, the plaintiff filed suit in circuit court. A jury awarded damages, finding that the plaintiff had proven one theory of liability but not another. The Court of Appeals vacated the circuit...
Hall v. General Motors Corp. - 5/12/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
Wayne Circuit Court
LC No. 96-61966 NP
I.
NATURE OF THE CASE
Plaintiff's personal injury, products liability claim against General Motors Corporation ("GM") raises a choice-of-law question...
Rogers v. City of Detroit and City of Detroit Police Department - 5/5/1998
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
This appeal is a consolidation of two cases. In each, the primary issue is whether the Supreme Court should overrule or modify its decision in Fiser v City of Ann Arbor, 417 Mich 461; 339 NW2d 413...
Rogers v. City of Detroit - 5/5/1998
Argued November 4, 1997 (Calendar Nos. 3-4).
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH
This appeal is a consolidation of two cases. In each, the primary issue is whether the Supreme Court should overrule or modify its decision in Fiser v...
Reeves v. K-Mart Corp. - 5/5/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
Plaintiff Steve Reeves III, as personal representative of the estates of Kevin Reeves and Kevin Reeves, Jr., and plaintiff Kevin Redmond, as personal representative of the estates of Shawn Reeves and Tanesha...
In re Brown - 5/5/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
Appellant Rosena Brown, personal representative of the estate of Ryan Terrell Brown, appeals by leave granted from the circuit court's denial of leave to appeal from the decision of the probate court assessing...
Lewis v. Krogol - 5/5/1998
FOR PUBLICATION
Plaintiff appeals as of right a circuit court order granting defendant's motion for summary Disposition in this medical malpractice action. At issue are the statutory limitations on non-economic damages in MCL...
Bosco v. Bauermeister - 12/23/1997
BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH (except Taylor, J.).
I.
In this case, we are called upon to determine the priority of coverage of several insurance policies, all of which admittedly provided coverage for the automobile accident...
Gibson v. Neelis - 12/23/1997
FOR PUBLICATION
Plaintiff appeals as of right from an amended order denying plaintiff's motion for reconsideration of the trial court's decision to take judicial notice of law, granting defendant's motion for partial summary...
Neal v. Oakwood Hosp. Corp. - 12/12/1997
In this medical malpractice case, plaintiff William Neal, as next friend of his son, Matthew Neal, a minor, appeals as of right an order (1) granting summary Disposition without prejudice in favor of defendant Oakwood Hospital...
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