MCL 600.5852, the wrongful-death saving provision that gives a personal representative extra time to file suit after the general period of limitations has run, itself creates a limitations period and is therefore subject to the tolling mechanism of MCL 600.5856(c) during the 182-day medical-malpractice notice period.

An attorney who submits filings containing fabricated or unsupported legal authority—including hallucinated citations generated by artificial intelligence—violates the duty of reasonable inquiry under MCR 1.109(E)(5), and such conduct on appeal supports sanctions under MCR 7.216(C)(1).

The plaintiff demonstrated a genuine issue of material fact regarding the hospital's liability for medical malpractice under the theory of ostensible agency and did not need to show further reliance under the Grewe test.

The trial court improperly denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s medical malpractice claim based on the applicable statute of limitations.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has established a new standard for when an expert witness may be disqualified for an alleged conflict of interest.

A board-certified cardiologist satisfied the medical-malpractice expert witness requirements, even though the doctor’s specialty was not interventional cardiology.

A trial judge should not have stricken a plaintiff’s expert witnesses as a sanction for violating discovery orders, the COA has ruled, finding that the sanction was too harsh.