HYDE v. UNIV. OF MICHIGAN REGENTS

Docket Nos. 74541, 77213, 77815, (Calendar Nos. 6-8).

426 Mich. 223 (1986)

393 N.W.2d 847

HYDE v. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BOARD OF REGENTS FAIGENBAUM v. OAKLAND MEDICAL CENTER POWERS v. PEOPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Erlich, Rosen & Bartnick (by Richard E. Shaw) for plaintiffs Hyde.

Fieger & Fieger, P.C. (by Geoffrey N. Fieger), for plaintiff Faigenbaum.

William S. Stern, P.C., for plaintiff Powers.

Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C. (by Mark D. Willmarth and James D. Zazakis), for defendant University of Michigan Board of Regents.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and George L. McCargar and Alan Hoffman, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendant Oakland Medical Center.

Cozadd, Shangle, Smith & Andrews (by B. Ward Smith and John R. Day) for defendant Peoples Community Hospital Authority.

Amici Curiae:

Richard M. Goodman, P.C. (by Susan E. Lister), for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. (by Richard D. Toth).


CAVANAGH, J.

In Ross v Consumers Power Co (On Rehearing), 420 Mich. 567; 363 N.W.2d 641 (1984), this Court attempted to clarify the parameters of sovereign, governmental, and individual immunity from tort liability granted by the governmental tort liability act, MCL 691.1401 et seq.; MSA 3.996(101) et seq., and common law. In particular, we redefined the term "governmental...

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