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Issue: medical malpractice claimMI ↗
Issue: party requests standardMI ↗
Issue: preserved errorMI ↗
Issue: collateral source ruleMI ↗
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Peak v. Kubota Tractor Corp.
(See ECF No. 67 at 20.) Defendants simply disagree with the Court’s view of what must be lost to qualify as a “loss of a vital bodily function.” The Court believes that the threshold is met to support the higher cap if Plaintiffs legs are “no longer functional in the way that normal [legs] are.” See Shivers v. Schmiege, 285 Mich.App. 636, 650 , 776 N.W.2d 669, 678 (2009) (finding that, although the plaintiff continued to have some limited use of his arms, they “were no longer functional in the way that normal arms are” and thus plaintiff had suffered a total, permanent, functiona…
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Raymond O'NEAL, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
ST. JOHN HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER, Ralph Dilisio, M.D., and Efstathios Tapazoglou, M.D., Defendants-Appellees.
v.
ST. JOHN HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER, Ralph Dilisio, M.D., and Efstathios Tapazoglou, M.D., Defendants-Appellees.
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Order
On order of the Chief Justice, the motion be the Michigan State Medical Society for extension of the time for filing its brief amicus curiae is considered and it is GRANTED.