MILLER v. MERCY MEMORIAL HOSP. CORP.

Docket No. 118701.

644 N.W.2d 730 (2002)

Edward MILLER, Personal Representative of the Estate of Morrison Miller, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MERCY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, Manoo Boonsiri, M.D., Manoo Boonsiri, M.D., P.C., and Norma A. Flores, M.D., Defendants-Appellees, and Akbar Attary, M.D., Defendant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 4, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Granzotto & Nicita, P.C. (by Mark Granzotto), Detroit, MI and Erlich, Rosen & Bartnick, P.C. (by Sheldon D. Erlich), Southfield, MI, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Kitch, Drutchas, Wagner, DeNardis & Valitutti (by Susan Healy Zitterman), Detroit, MI, for defendant-appellee Mercy Memorial Hospital Corporation.

Collins, Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff, P.C. (by Noreen L. Slank), Southfield, MI, for defendants-appellees Boonsiri and Flores.


Opinion

PER CURIAM.

This case presents the issue whether the six-month discovery provision in M.C.L. § 600.5838a(2), applicable to medical malpractice claims, is incorporated in the wrongful death saving statute as a "period of limitation." MCL 600.5852. Plaintiff filed a wrongful death action on the basis of medical malpractice, alleging in part that defendants failed to timely diagnose cancer, which resulted in the death of plaintiff's decedent. The...

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