COX v. D'ADDARIO

Docket Nos. 189143, 189795.

570 N.W.2d 284 (1997)

225 Mich. App. 113

Naomi COX, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Cottage Hospital Corp., Defendant, and Stephen Paul D'ADDARIO, M.D., Michael Jerome Naber, M.D., and Naber & D'Addario, M.D., P.C., Defendants-Appellees. Rick HOOTEN and Judy Hooten, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James C. LATHROP, M.D., James M. Tschirhart, M.D., James M. Tschirhart M.D., P.C., and Saginaw General Hospital, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided August 19, 1997, at 9:05 a.m.

Released for Publication November 6, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bleakley & McKeen, P.C. by Brian J. McKeen, Detroit, for Naomi Cox.

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Herskovic & Heilmann by Richard E. Shaw, Southfield, for Rick and Judy Hooten.

Kerr, Russell and Weber, P.L. C. by Stephen D. McGraw and Joanne Geha Swanson, Detroit, for Stephen P. D'Addario, Michael J. Naber, and Naber & D'Addario, M.D., P.C.

Fordney, Dust & Prine by Andrew W. Prine, Saginaw, for James C. Lathrop, James M. Tschirhart, and James M. Tschirhart, M.D., P.C.

Kitch, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C. by Susan Healy Zitterman and Christina A. Ginter, Detroit, for Saginaw General Hospital, Inc.

Before MARK J. CAVANAGH, P.J., and REILLY and WHITE, JJ.


WHITE, Judge.

These consolidated cases present the question whether arbitration agreements executed pursuant to the medical malpractice arbitration act (MMAA), M.C.L. § 600.5040 et seq.; M.S.A. § 27A.5040 et seq., are invalidated retroactively by the repeal of the MMAA and of Chapter 30A of the Insurance Code of 1956, M.C.L. § 500.3051 et seq.; M.S.A. § 24.13051 et seq., in...

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