LaGuire v. Kain

The question presented in these companion cases is whether Michigan’s Liquor Control Act, as amended in 1986,1 entitles a minor’s estate or a minor’s family to recover from a liquor licensee for injuries allegedly resulting from the licensee’s illegal provision of alcohol to a minor. We hold that the 1986 amendments of the dramshop act bar both a minor’s estate and the family of that minor from recovery under the act. Therefore, we reverse the decisions of the Court of Appeals in Waranica v Cheers Good Time Saloons, Inc, 186 Mich App 398; 464 NW2d 902 (1990), and LaGuire v Kain, 185 Mich App…