Jemaa v. MacGregor Athletic Products

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the Wayne Circuit Court’s order declining jurisdiction with respect to plaintiff’s product liability claim against defendant MacGregor Athletic Products and severing the product liability claim from plaintiff’s medical malpractice claim against defendant Theodore Cole, M.D. We affirm.

Plaintiff is a resident of Ohio. In October, 1978, while playing high school football in Toledo, Ohio, he incurred an injury which rendered him quadriplegic. About ten weeks after his injury, plaintiff was treated in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan Hospital by Dr. Cole.

Pl…