Martinez v. Redford Community Hospital

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from an order of the circuit court granting defendants’ motion to strike plaintiffs’ amended complaint and dismiss their medical malpractice case. GCR 1963, 115, now MCR 2.15. We affirm and hold that the degree of specificity required in pleading a medical malpractice action flows from the circumstances and nature of the case rather than from any objective heavier burden of pleading imposed on medical malpractice actions.

Plaintiffs filed a medical malpractice complaint against defendants on February 19, 1984. Defendants subsequently moved for a more definite…