Ostroth v. Warren Regency, GP, LLC

This architectural malpractice case poses the issue whether MCL 600.5839 is only a statute of repose, in which case MCL 600.5805(6) or (10) supplies a shorter limitations period, or is itself both a statute of repose and a statute of limitations. The Court of Appeals concluded that § 5839 is both a statute of repose *39and a statute of limitations and thus the plaintiffs cause of action is not time-barred.1 We agree and accordingly affirm that decision and remand the matter to the circuit court.

FACTS

In April 1998, defendant Edward Schulak, Hobbs & Black, Inc., architects and consultants, was the…