United States Sixth Circuit

Michigan's malpractice cap, Mich. Comp. Laws section 600.1483, applies to a failure-to-stabilize claim under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2005
• Published 08/18/2005

Judges

• Before:  GIBBONS and COOK, Circuit Judges;  PHILLIPS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert G. Kamenec, Plunkett & Cooney, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, for Appellant.  Donald M. Fulkerson, Westland, Michigan, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Robert G. Kamenec, Plunkett & Cooney, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Ernest R. Bazzana, Plunkett & Cooney, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant.  Donald M. Fulkerson, Westland, Michigan, Geoffrey N. Fieger, Fieger, Fieger, Kenney & Johnson, Southfield, Michigan, Marc E. Lipton, Lipton Law Center, Southfield, Michigan, for Appellee.  Gregory W. Moore, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, Troy, Michigan, David Arkush, Allison M. Zieve, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., Jeffrey Robert White, Center for Constitutional Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae.