Cooper v. Garden City Osteopathic Hospital

Plaintiffs instituted a medical malpractice action against the anesthesiologist and surgeons who treated plaintiff Dorothy Cooper at Garden City Osteopathic Hospital. The hospital was joined as a party defendant. Subsequently, plaintiffs reached an out-of-court settlement with the anesthesiologist, and a Wayne County Circuit Court jury returned a verdict of no cause of action on plaintiffs’ complaint against the remaining parties. The trial court denied plaintiffs’ post-trial motion for a new trial as well as their motion to take the depositions of three nurses who cared for Mrs. Cooper after…