December 01, 2025
A Michigan federal judge has slashed the $8.5 million a jury awarded to the estate of a cancer patient suing over his doctor's treatment decisions to about $615,000, ruling that a state law limiting noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases is constitutional.
July 03, 2025
Michigan's highest court won't weigh in on the constitutionality of the state's caps on medical malpractice awards, rejecting a federal district court's certified question Thursday.
January 01, 2025
Attorneys predict the new five-justice Democratic majority on the Michigan Supreme Court this year could put teeth into a once-strong consumer protection statute, continue to tweak the state's premises liability law and could take on a federally posed question of the constitutionality of medical malpractice caps.
November 12, 2024
A Michigan federal judge has certified questions to the state's Supreme Court asking if caps on noneconomic medical malpractice damages are constitutional, in a case in which a cancer patient's estate was awarded $8.6 million for a missed diagnosis.
September 26, 2024
The estate of a patient who won an $8.6 million medical malpractice verdict earlier this year is asking a Michigan federal court to certify a question to the state's Supreme Court to determine whether a statutory cap on noneconomic damages is constitutional.
July 25, 2024
A Michigan federal jury awarded more than $8.5 million in damages Wednesday to a man who died of kidney cancer, finding that a doctor at a cancer clinic missed an opportunity to diagnose the cancer before it spread to his brain.