KRUSAC v. COVENANT MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

Docket No. 149270. Calendar No. 4.

865 N.W.2d 908 (2015)

497 Mich. 251

KRUSAC v. COVENANT MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 21, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Granzotto, PC, Royal Oak (by Mark Granzotto ) and Law Office of Cy Weiner PLC (by Carlene J. Reynolds ), for plaintiff.

Hall Matson, PLC, (by Thomas R. Hall , East Lansing and Samuel B. Oberman ), for defendant.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, PC, Lansing (by Richard C. Kraus ), for the Regents of the University of Michigan, for Amici Curiae.

Chris E. Davis , for the Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, Inc.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC, Detroit (by Irene Bruce Hathaway ), for Michigan Defense Trial Counsel.

Kerr, Russell and Weber, PLC, Detroit (by Daniel J. Schulte and Joanne Geha Swanson ), for the Michigan State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, Grand Rapids (by Stephanie C. Hoffer ) for the Michigan Society of Healthcare Risk Management.

Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, PC, Lansing (by Graham K. Crabtree ), for Munson Healthcare, Inc.

Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook, Detroit (by Christina A. Ginter ) for the Michigan Health and Hospital Association.

Charfoos & Christensen, PC, Detroit (by David R. Parker ), for the Michigan Association for Justice.

Thomas C. Miller , Grand Rapids, for Jeanne Harrison.

Olsman Mueller Wallace & MacKenzie, PC (by Jules B. Olsman , Berkley), for Michigan's State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program.

Reiter & Walsh, PC, Pleasant Ridge (by Emily G. Thomas ), for Health Care Administrator Brenda Keeling, R.N.


In this interlocutory appeal, we are once again asked to consider the scope of the peer review privilege found in MCL 333.20175(8) and MCL 333.21515 of the Public Health Code, MCL 333.1101 et seq. Specifically, we must decide whether the trial court erred by ordering production of the objective facts contained in an incident report authored...

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