McLean v. University of Michigan Medical Center

Plaintiff Phyllis McLean was in jured when she slipped on a grease spot and fell in a hospital cafeteria maintained by defendant. She and her husband sued in the Court of Claims, citing the public building exception to governmental immunity. MCL 691.1406; MSA 3.996(106). Defendant claimed governmental immunity as an affirmative defense. Following a bench trial, the court found that the greasy condition was present and it constituted a dangerous or defective condition, that defendant had actual or constructive knowledge of the defect, and that defendant failed to remedy the defect within a…