Helmer v. Peoples Community Hospital Authority

Plaintiff, the father of decedent Douglas Helmer and also the administrator of Douglas Helmer’s estate, appeals as of right from summary disposition entered by the Wayne Circuit Court in favor of defendants on the basis of governmental immunity, MCR 2.116(C)(7), and also from denial of a motion to amend. We affirm.

This wrongful death and malpractice suit arose out of the suicide of plaintiffs son, who died when he crashed in a small airplane he had rented on January 31, 1978. The young man’s death occurred after an earlier attempted suicide for which he had been treated at defendant hospital…