CRAIG EX REL. CRAIG v. OAKWOOD HOSP.

Docket Nos. 121405, 121407-121409, 121419. Calendar No. 5.

684 N.W.2d 296 (2004)

471 Mich. 67

Antonio CRAIG, by his next friend, Kimberly CRAIG, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OAKWOOD HOSPITAL, Henry Ford and Ajit Kittur, M.D., Defendant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 23, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Silverman, M.D., J.D., P.C. (by Mark L. Silverman, M.D.), Birmingham, MI, for the plaintiff.

Dickinson Wright PLLC (by Barbara H. Erard and Phillip J. DeRosier), Detroit, MI, for the Oakwood Hospital.

Kallas & Henk, P.C. (by Leonard A. Henk), Bloomfield, MI, and Kitch Drutchas Wagner Denardis & Valitutti (by Susan Healy Zitterman), Detroit, MI, for the Henry Ford Health System.

John P. Jacobs, P.C. (by John P. Jacobs), Detroit, MI, for Elias G. Gennaoui, M.D. and Associated Physicians, P.C.

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP (by Chris E. Rossman and Jason Schian Conti), Detroit, MI, for the Michigan Health and Hospital Association.

Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (by Mary Massaron Ross), Detroit, MI, for The Defense Research Institute.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C. (by Thomas R. Meagher), Lansing, MI, for the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel.

Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (by Robert G. Kamenec), Bloomfield Hills, MI, for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.


YOUNG, J.

Plaintiff, now an adult, suffers from cerebral palsy, mental retardation, and a number of other neurological and physical ailments. He argues, through his mother as next friend, that these conditions are the proximate results of defendants' negligence in treating his mother during her labor leading to his delivery. Specifically, plaintiff maintains that defendants administered an excessive amount of a contraction-inducing medication to his mother and were...

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