Williams v. O'CONNOR

We adopt the facts of this case as they are presented by our brother Burns in his dissent.

There is a difference of opinion among judges of the Court of Appeals as to whether the require*616ment of the R. Hood-McNeely-Geake Malpractice Arbitration Act (MAA), MCL 600.5040 et seq.; MSA 27A.5040 et seq., that one member of the three-member arbitration panel be a hospital administrator or physician violates a patient’s due process rights. Two recent cases from this Court addressed this issue and held that that requirement does not infringe unconstitutionally upon the due process right to a hearing…