Bardoni v. Kim

Plaintiffs appeal the trial court’s orders granting defendant Dr. Soon K. Kim’s motions for summary judgment pursuant to GCR 1963, 117.2(3), now MCR 2.116(0(10). Plaintiffs brought suit against Dr. Kim for the deaths of Catherine and Robert Bardoni, the mother and brother of Richard Bardoni, Dr. Kim’s patient. Plaintiffs claimed that Dr. Kim negligently failed to diagnose Richard Bardoni as dangerous to members of his family and failed to warn them of Bardoni’s potential dangerousness. The trial court held that defendant did not owe plaintiffs’ decedents a duty to warn because, as a matter of…