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THEOPHELIS v. LANSING GEN. HOSPITAL

Docket No. 78166, (Calendar No. 2).

430 Mich. 473 (1988)

424 N.W.2d 478

THEOPHELIS v. LANSING GENERAL HOSPITAL

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 6, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Farhat, Story & Kraus, P.C. (by Richard C. Kraus), and Church, Wyble, Kritselis & Robinson, P.C. (by William N. Kritselis), for the plaintiffs.

Kitch, Saurbier, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C. (by Ronald E. Wagner and Susan Healy Zitterman), for defendant Lansing General Hospital.

GRIFFIN, J.

In this medical malpractice action we are required to determine whether a 1974 amendment1 of the Michigan contribution among tortfeasors act, MCL 600.2925; MSA 27A.2925, abrogated the common-law rule that settlement with, and release of, an agent operates to discharge the principal from vicarious liability for the agent's acts. We conclude that the amendment had no such effect.

We are asked also to decide whether releases...

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