STEIN v. SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN FAMILY PLANNING PROJECT, INC.

Docket Nos. 80388, 80695, (Calendar Nos. 5-6).

432 Mich. 198 (1989)

438 N.W.2d 76

STEIN v. SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN FAMILY PLANNING PROJECT, INC. RIFKIN v. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITAL

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 3, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. (by Richard D. Toth), for the plaintiffs in Stein.

Rifkin & Kingsley, P.C. (by Lori D. Weisberg and Rebecca A. Roberts), for the plaintiffs in Rifkin.

Samuel A. Turner, Corporation Counsel, and Alan B. Havis and Glen H. Downs, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for Wayne County General Hospital.

Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (by D.J. Watters and Christine D. Oldani), for defendant University of Michigan Hospital.

Amici Curiae:

Neal & Lengauer, P.C. (by Stephanie A. Nelson), for Michigan Defense Trial Counsel.

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Erlich, Rosen & Bartnick (by Richard E. Shaw) for Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.

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


PER CURIAM:

This Court held in Hyde v Univ of Michigan Bd of Regents, 426 Mich. 223; 393 N.W.2d 847 (1986), that the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients at a public general hospital or medical facility, when expressly or impliedly mandated or authorized by the constitution, statute, or other law, is a governmental function and that to the extent Parker v Highland Park,

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