Green v. Berrien General Hospital Auxiliary, Inc

Seven-year-old Jason Green entered Berrien General Hospital as an inpatient on December 26, 1984, and died less than forty-eight hours later. His parents, plaintiffs in this action, filed a wrongful death action against the hospital and Jason’s attending nurses, defendants Hardy and Dennis. The trial court granted summary disposition for the defendants, and the Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that governmental im munity barred plaintiffs’ cause of action. 1 2 Plaintiffs appeal only with regard to the immunity of the defendant nurses.

This case requires us to revisit the test of governmental…