Garabedian v. William Beaumont Hospital

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the circuit court’s order granting a directed verdict in favor of defendant. The principal issue on appeal is whether plaintiff presented sufficient evidence of causation to allow the matter to go to the jury. We affirm.

Plaintiff, an eighty-seven-year-old woman, had been taken by her daughter, Agnes Nassar, to the William Beaumont Hospital emergency room with a terrible headache and sudden blindness. Ms. Nassar was only allowed to visit plaintiff for five minutes each hour. Ms. Nassar testified that plaintiff’s mental condition deteriorated after she…